New coal ash landfill project in Minnesota

ByRod Adams

The Energy Central Network published a story on 20 December titled Ash landfill proposal moves forward. According to the article, Xcel Energy received permission to study the environmental impacts of opening a new landfill to store the ash produced at the Allen S. King power plant in Oak Park Heights, MN.

The current ash landfill will be full by 2010, but the proposed 46 acre site would provide enough space to accomodate the solid portion of the plant’s waste production for about 30 years.

Of course, the gaseous portion of the deadly coal combustion waste continuously flows up into the plant’s smokestack where it is dumped into our common atmosphere.

(Yes, I know that my words are a bit slanted. I did that on purpose.)

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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