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Are Toxic Coal Ash Ponds Confidential Business Information?
There is nothing confidential when people get hurt they go into protection mode.
Think with your heart and your mind. If the Coal Ash Ponds are above ground they are easily seen by any pilot.
Always think from your opponent's perspective.
Good luck don't give up...
Now we've heard everything.
You're being naive. You ain't heard NUTHIN yet. Wait'il the energy companies' lawyers hook up with some of the good-ol'-boy judges they own, down in those parts to cook up legalisms to protect the interests of the owners.
By claiming 'proprietary' rights tot he information, the power co's are protecting the locations of their potential liabilities in order not to be compelled by the law to alleviate the risks to neighboring populations.
They'll succeed, at least til the first white person gets killed in a flood of their manufacture...
Is there anything that we can do, like sign a petition or something?
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