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FPL plans to use 7,000 acre for their coal-operated power plant. It will also house their coal piles and their ash disposal plant. A mountain of pulverized coal and ash waiting to get eroded on rainy season going to where??? How about the gypsum waste, etc, materials from scrubbers?They called it the slurry . Coal has tons of toxic chemicals from mercury, to arsenic, etc. All of these chemicals will be on the slurry -which is made up of fine particles of coal washings. This will be dumped on a pond dug up from the ground. These contaminants will be on bare grounds, goes to our water supply, crops, canals, rivers and estuaries, to the fish and then to our table.Here's a typical cycle.

• Cases of Contamination from Coal Combustion Waste 11/05/2005
• Part of Minutes of the meeting treasure coast -04/15/2005 & housing workforce problem To read the full minutes of the meeting, etc. click here and scroll down to bottom of page 2 10/11/2005
• Florida State Profile of Exposure to Coal-fired Power Plant 03/23/2005
• Societies protest RCF's chalk pollution 03/22/2005
• Field Trip to a Coal - Powered Plant 03/22/2005
• Coal Storage Facility Pictures 03/22/2005
• EPA's Clean Energy and Electricity from coal plus Pros & Cons of other Sources02/17/2005
• Clean Coal Technology Profile 02/17/2005
• Facts about coal 02/17/2005
• The case for coal 02/17/2005
• Coal-fired and Hydroelectric Utilities-Impacts, Risks & Regulations 02/17/2005
• Battle with Coal 02/14/05
• Land, Water, and Wildlife Impacts 02/14/05
• Mercury -EPA Website 02/14/05
• The Real Facts behind coal-fired power plants 02/14/05
• Florida State Profile of Exposure to Coal-Fired Power Plant 02/11/05
• Tampa Bay Coal Plant at CNBC aired channel 355. A must to see story. Schedule below:02/10/05
  

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• Effects of coal-fired thermal power plant discharges on agricultural soil and crop plants. 02/10/05