Power company accused of hiding dangers of coal ash dump

[Louisiana1976]

The saga over a that coal ash dump masquerading as a golf course in Virginia continues. And it keeps getting worse for the people living next to it.

Recall that Dominion Power constructed an 18-hole golf course next to a neighborhood in Chesapeake, Virginia, seemingly as a clever ruse to dispose of 1.5 million tons of contaminated fly ash, a byproduct of the burning of coal at its power plants in other parts of the state. The story broke over the summer -- I blogged it here and here -- when homeowners filed a lawsuit accusing the utility company of converting their neighborhood into another Love Canal. As the golf course construction manager testified, "It was clear that a golf course wasn't being built. It was a coal ash dump. All Dominion ever cared about was tonnage and how much more they could dump."

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815152/-Power-Company-Accused-of-Hiding-Dangers-of-Coal-Ash-Dump