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March 11 Big Stone II: Rising Risk, Lowered WaterCredence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rings strangely in tune with what's going down with Big Stone II. Just google the lyrics. Ironically, CCR has a whole new meaning beyond the music familiar to many - the new CCR, Consumer Confidence Reports by the EPA, require public water suppliers that serve the same people year round (community water systems) to provide consumer confidence reports to their customers. Its been thirty plus years now since Big Stone Plant Unit 1 came on-line, wonder how long it will take before we know what's leaking into Big Stone Lake and surrounding water tables? See the presentation from the public forum at Agency Village last night, "Rising Risk Lowered Water." [pdf]. You can also find it posted online at South Dakota Clean Water Action (clidk on publications). March 03 Public Forum on the Impacts of Big Stone IIFuture generations will thank us for making wise decisions now. The wind blows free and clean across the South Dakota - Minnesota border; while the cost of burning more coal comes not only in dollars and sense (non) it comes at the expense of our health and environment. Already, the fish in Big Stone Lake contain mercury poison. Acclaimed author and environmental activist Winona LaDuke, an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe and Executive Director of the national organization, Honor the Earth will be speaking: Public Forum on the Impacts of Big Stone II If a pebble makes a ripple, what do big stones make?If a pebble makes a ripple – what will a stone make? Worse, what will two Big Stone coal plants pumping more mercury into the air and waters around Big Stone Lake make? Most at risk are the children – mercury is a known potent neuro-toxin, but we also pay a high economic cost according to experts who reported on the Public Health and Economic Consequences of Methyl Mercury Toxicity to the Developing Brain (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005).
On the bright side, environmentalists in Iowa are saying that it will be a lot tougher for utilities to build coal plants after a federal appeals court threw out a federal pollution-trading system that allowed excess mercury emissions at some plants. |
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