Coal River

Dan River Coal Ash Spill On Sunday, February 2, 2014 on a cold day, a water pipe exploded under a coal ash impoundment at Duke Energy’s Dan River Power Station near Eden, North Carolina. This problem caused a lot of commotion throughout the community, and to make matters worse, Duke Energy didn’t announce this incident until a couple of days later. Duke Energy estimated that between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash ran into Dan River, causing it to litter and pollute with masses of debris. Duke’s

not met it results in project management failure. An example of this is the Pike River Coal Mine tragedy which occurred on November 19th 2010 which is located on the West Coast of New Zealand, where a series of methane explosions happened resulting in the loss of 29 men’s lives and 2 survivors walking away from the explosions. This report will look into the project management failures which occurred at the Pike River Coal Mine such as not completing objectives by certain deadlines which then would lead

Introduction In November 2010, an explosion occurred in Pike River coal mine (PRCM) that caused the death of 29 miners. It was considered as the worst incident in New Zealand after 96 years (Mussen, Dally, Watkins, & Chapman, 2012). Pike River Coal Mine was set to be the largest underground coal mine in New Zealand. The explosion occurred 2 months after the mine started their operation. In this report, project management failures in Pike River mine will be discuss and the ways that it could be improved

My dad came up with a grand idea as we approached our eleventh mile on the Little Coal River. He said, “Nate this would be wonderful! Doug (one of our good family friends), invited us to come play golf with him and the boys (his twin sons, Preston and John Logan) at Berry Hills.” Almost immediately, I cringed. There was nothing I hated more than golf, and now I had to play it on the same day as riding the river for what seemed like endless hours. With my soul crushed by the continuous paddling

Powder River Basin Located in the western United States, the Powder River Basin is currently the United States largest producer of coal, and the coal that is produced here is some of the cleanest coal that is used in coal burning power plants. By producing such large quantities of low sulfur, clean burning coal, the Powder River Basin is of great interest, and we will examine the conditions and factors that helped to form some of the largest and cleanest coal seams in the world, along with coal production

Coal is the most abundant and important source of primary energy in the world. There are reserves spread throughout some one hundred countries to meet global needs up to the next two hundred and fifty years. It is the most important fossil fuel for electricity generation and industrial purposes. But, it has pollution issues to the environment like Air pollution, land degradation, noise pollution, etc. But the pollution I am going to be talking about is water pollution from the coal mines in the Alabama

Proper, sustainable disposal methods of coal ash or fly ash proposed by the scientific community include the recycled use of this byproduct from coal-burning energy plants and the transfer of current coal ash ponds unequipped with the proper monitoring equipment to be transferred to a certified location where it can be stored and accessed for future recycling attempts. To be properly equipped the site must contain the following: synthetic bedding liners, leachate collection systems and ground water

Pike river mine was in a lot trouble and needed something to get rid of financial debts that had piled up over the years. The mine was new and the owner, Pike River Coal Ltd, had not completed the systems and infrastructure necessary to safely produce coal. It’s health and safety systems were poorly maintained and the ventilation and methane drainage systems weren’t coping with everything the company was trying to do for example, driving roadways through coal and drilling into the coal seam and extracting

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, coal ash is defined as “waste produced primarily from the burning of coal in coal-fired power plants. Coal ash includes a number of by-products produced from burning coal” (Coal Ash Basics (EPA), 2015). This coal ash can either be stored in a dry state or put into basins and mixed with water and held in a coal ash pond. The issue lies with the storing of the ash in the basins as a water mixture. Coal ash contains heavy metals such as arsenic and lead

hydrothermal alteration of coal within the basin (Higley, 2007).