the state knew that was true. the state knew that was true when they put the world net daily russian oil conspiracy guy in charge of that issue for the state. and in a way, that s kind of hilarious, but it has also resulted since the spill in moments like this one that i m going to show you now. this is the oil might not be a fossil fuel guy talking about what the state of north carolina should do about all of these coal ash pits that they know are leaking toxins all over the state. watch. their only acceptable remedy was dig them up, move them to lined landfills and cover them. oh, did that just get stuck? he goes on to say, their only acceptable remedy, environmentalists, dig them up, move them to lined landfills. 14 facilities and 32 coal ash ponds. i can assure you it s motnot th
energy shut down the spill at the dan river? the third largest spill in american history. it started on super bowl sunday. it flooded that river with all that toxic sludge all day super bowl sunday, all day monday, all day tuesday. they couldn t figure out how to stop the flow of these thousands of tons of toxic sludge into the river. they couldn t stop it. it was not that they couldn t clean up what they had already dumped into the river, they d barely even started that now. they couldn t stop the spill from continuing for days. they couldn t figure out how to stop it. you want to know how they actually finally stopped it? the spill was of a pipe that flowed under a big pit of coal ash. here s the pipe. all the coal ash is on top of it, right? they couldn t get into the coal ash to go fix the pipe. hey, you know, it s really toxic stuff. we don t want to be touching that. so they built themselves a platform over the coal ash pit so they could sort of stage themselves on that platform
statewide public office do actually run stuff that affects millions of people and when things go horribly wrong, the people who have statewide office and are appointed to statewide positions, they re in charge of fixing it and if they get it wrong, it goes wrong for everybody. north carolina right now is living through an unscientific noncontrolled experiment about what happens when you put people in charge who believe stuff like this. unless you have any hope that maybe this isn t something government will fix, maybe industry will be better because, oh, at least industry doesn t have the luxury of cockamamy ideologically motivated science denialism that makes you believe that the earth is only five minutes old because that s more comfortable to explain to people. lest you think industry is going to fix this because they don t have the constraints. do you want to know how duke energy shut down the spill at the dan river? the third largest spill in american history. it started on super
some 27 million gallons of water drained from the lagoon and a platform constructed for emergency operations collapsed into the sludge pit and buried the broken pipe in tons of rubble. all that material went into the pipe. that platform collapsed into the pipe and plugged it. ta-da! that was their fix. total collapse. that was how they stopped the spill. that s how they stopped the third largest coal ash spill in the country days into it. and the guy quoted in that article there from the charlotte news and on server who s explaining to lawmakers that s how they finally got the pipe shut down, he s one of the staff members of the pat mccrory administration who s had their personnel records subpoenaed along with the last batch of 18 subpoenas out to mccrory staffers asking them to report to federal prosecutors whether they ever exchanged money or things of value with duke energy since they ve been employees of the mccrory administration supposedly overseeing that company while that compa
ash sludge into a 70-mile slick on the dan river. there are 31 other pits just like this one that spilled just like this one that spilled all over the state of north carolina. there s 14 sites across north carolina with what used to be 32 of these big ponds, these big pits full of coal ash. now it s down to 31 of them, of course. this one no longer is a big pit full of coal ash because the coal ash in the pit has run away downstream. when the mccrory administration took over, this was not just a disaster that was waiting to happen in north carolina. this was a disaster that was already in progress when they took office. all of the duke energy coal ash pits, all across the state of north carolina, all of them were already known to be leaking toxins. this was not an allegation that was refuted by the state. the state knew that was true. the state knew that was true when they put the world net daily russian oil conspiracy guy in charge of that issue for the state. and in a way, that s k