Duke Energy's Tom Williams debates the Executive Director of the Canary Coalition, Avram Friedman, on the role of "clean coal" in meeting future energy demand while addressing the challenges posed by climate change and other environmental and health impacts. Hosted by Four Seasons Sierra Committee, Hendersonville, NC.
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Coal ash waste ponds with mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, barium, dioxins, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride are catashrophes waiting to happen.
Carbon dioxide cannot be scrubbed. Sequestration of carbon is impractical, energy intensive, expensive, unsafe and never successfully tried. It makes so much more sense to invest in clean, safe, renewable technologies and efficiency measures.
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