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The Alternative Coal Slurry Disposal Act (SB 248; HB 2850) actually went somewhere this year! It was sent to Judiciary and Finance in both houses of the Legislature. Both judiciary houses took up the respective bills, however, gutting them of their initial purpose. Environmental coalition Sludge Safety Project pushed the bills at the State Capitol.
The bills were never brought up for discussion in either Finance Committee meeting. There's always next year, right?
The Alternative Coal Slurry Disposal Act would have put a ban on future injection sites and modifications of current ones. Permits for injection sites are for up to 5 years.
It is believed that well water can be compromised in locations where underground slurry injection is taking place. Slurry related well water contamination is a problem for many in Prenter and Rawl, W.Va.
In the above March 1st video, Mathew Louis-Rosenburg, an organizer with Sludge Safety Project, talks about the slurry bills and their importance, SCR 15 and the ridiculous study that resulted from it, and a heated exchange in Senate Judiciary with a certain person from the DEP (actually named-unlike in Ry Rivard's recent Daily Mail article).
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