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Crisis 'Pulls Back the Curtain' on Water Threats
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Crisis 'Pulls Back the Curtain' on Water Threats
January 12, 2014
By Ken Ward Jr.
Charleston Gazette
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401120054
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last Wednesday night, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin continued
the now-familiar refrain of West Virginia officials who oppose tough
environmental regulations, especially if they are aimed at the coal
industry and issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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In his State of the State address, the governor promised he would, "never
back down from the EPA because of its misguided policies on coal."
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By the weekend, Tomblin found himself blasting the leak of a coal-cleaning
chemical into the Elk River, and confronting an ongoing emergency that's
left 300,000 of his constituents unable to turn on their taps.
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"A chemical leak is unacceptable and must be cleaned up as soon as
possible," the governor told reporters during a briefing Saturday night.
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Also at the Saturday briefing Tomblin pushed back at a reporter who
connected the ongoing water crisis to the coal industry.
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"This was not a coal company incident," the governor shot back. "This was
a chemical company incident."
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On Sunday night he did the same.
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"This was not a coal company, this was a chemical supplier, where the leak
occurred," he said. "As far as I know there was no coal company within
miles."
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But critics of the governor and his approach to regulatory matters say
that the leak provides an all-too real portrait of ongoing threats to the
state's public health that the state does little to address. The leak, at
the chemical tank farm Freedom Industries, was just 1.5 miles upstream
from West Virginia American Water's regional intake.
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"We must take a critical look at how to better protect our vital drinking
water sources," said Angie Rosser, executive director of the West Virginia
Rivers Coalition. "Clean water is essential for life. We cannot cut
corners in ensuring that our drinking water supply is protected."
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Some groups, such as the Sierra Club, pointed more directly at the coal
industry, which relies on products like the one involved in the Elk River
spill.
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"Coal mining communities are faced with the dangers of water pollution
from coal mining and pollution every day," said Mary Anne Hitt, director
of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. "This spill pulls the curtain
back on the coal industry's widespread and risky use of dangerous
chemicals, and is an important remainder that coal-related pollution poses
a serious danger to nearby communities."
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In a Friday statement, the group Appalachian Voices made a connection
between the ongoing regional water crisis and the coal industry that went
beyond just the chemical involved.
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"An increasing number of private wells in southwestern and central West
Virginia, where the spill occurred, have been contaminated by decades of
coal mining and processing," the group said. "One result has been an
ongoing expansion of municipal water systems to rural communities that
would otherwise rely on well water."
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At the same time, shrinking revenues and declining investments in public
infrastructure have led more and more small communities to contract with
private companies like West Virginia American Water to provide drinking
water services.
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"Driven by profit margins, companies have aggressively consolidated their
businesses, leading them to serve ever larger distribution networks from
only a handful of treatment plants and drinking water intakes,"
Appalachian Voices said. That's how, the group said, one chemical spill
into one river cut off drinking water access to roughly 16 percent of West
Virginia's population.
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