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We told you the story February about Duke Energy and the 39,000 tons of toxic coal slurry that gushed into a major North Carolina river.

At the time we also told you that Duke Energy, if they were forced to move out of those areas, said very upfront that they would pass on the costs of the cleanup to their customers.

The capitalist system works really well for the profits and then of course socializing the social costs and cleanup costs.

So now they've cleaned about 3,000 tons worth of the toxic coal slurry and they've issued a press release saying that the cleanup has been completed.

92% of course of the heavy metal filled and possibly radioactive coal ash is still coding 70 miles of river bottom and river advocates are understandably frustrated.

The argument that Duke Energy is making is that now the stuff has settled and has even been covered by the riverbed.

So now you're actually going to further disturb it. If you try to clean it up, you're better off just leaving it there.

Of course actual scientists indicate that just leaving it there is not like undisturbed as bestest where it's just going to sit unless someone takes a hammer to it.

That actually just because of the currents and because of other weather conditions, this stuff is going to be stirred up.

It is going to get, it's going to start flowing. Animals in the river will start eating it and it will work its way up the food chain.

92% of the coal ash slurry remains and Duke Energy Lewis says we're done here.

Incredible. Incredible to think that they could get away with this too.

They're just two powerful companies like this have too much leverage.

Lewis, don't worry. The free market is going to take care of this because big businesses have the inherent incentive to regulate themselves to make sure that exactly what is happening doesn't happen.

Thank you. That makes perfect sense.

The other thing I was thinking was they want to frack. They want to keep fracking all over the place here.

Meanwhile, they still leave 92% of the first disaster not cleaned up and say let's just not touch it. It's fine. It's covered in sediment.

I really trust these companies. I think that they are the people we should listen to.

You're trucking me. You know what are you doing?

I love the fainting. I have a new all in love. We'll see us through.

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