MORE SELENIUM POISONING?
Submitted by lgc_admin on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 19:45.
Selenium, the toxic trace element that poisoned the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in Merced County 25 years, is now killing creek fisheries in the Eastern U.S. Only the cause isn't agricultural waste water, it's coal mining.
Recently, a Wake Forest professor of biology went to the US Senate, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the President's Council on Environmental Quality, to give them all the disturbing news: we're poisoning our fresh water fish stocks with destructive mountaintop removal coal mining. In a study of 78 stream samples in areas near mountaintop removal mining sites, Professor Dennis Lemly and his team found that 73 contained toxic levels of selenium.
Toxic levels of selenium, a chemical element, cause gruesome birth defects twisted spines and deformed heads in fish populations. Once in the aquatic environment, waterborne selenium can enter the food chain and reach levels that are toxic to fish and wildlife, Lemly told officials.
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Coal mines and selenium
It seems like no one every wants to learn by the troubles of others and insists on repeating all the mistakes for themselves. West Virginia Dept. of Env. Protection still issues of deadlines for mining operations to stop polluting streams with selenium. http://tinyurl.com/ygsofo7 Maybe commenter named enough would like to have his family drink that water. Is it a risk he would take. I wouldn't.
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