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Originally Posted by JSH
Nope. GM killed the Volt when they killed the Cruze. They both were killed 1st quarter 2019. They were the last cars on the D2XX platform.
This Colstrip?
"The cleanup is a massive undertaking for the waste ponds servicing what was until January 2020 a four-unit power plant. The pond complex for the coal-fired units involves nine waste ponds that have leaked roughly 200 million gallons of contaminated water into the ground every year for more than 30 years. One day’s leakage equals an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of contaminants, including boron, sulfates, selenium and heavy metals. Combined with the Unit 3 and 4 ash ponds, the pollution complex spans 800 acres, with an estimated cleanup cost of $400 million to $700 million. Remediation is expected to take decades.
https://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...me-top-story-1 |
Yep, imagine that, they take soil contaminated naturally with all those things from around the plant and also millions of tons of, you know, coal. Then they use the coal to make electricity and lots of the leftovers go back into the dry desert soil from wence they came. 1000 years from now someone else will probably have a mine there with some great use of those minerals too. Actually give it long enough and Yellowstone park's volcano will have migrated that far east and north and vaporize anything we didn't use releasing it all into the atmosphere.