The stream now carries black sediment of waste coal which eventually flows into Lake Kariba.
But I lived in a pit village and I knew many of the people that were on strike and I knew the way these people had to go out at night to gather waste coal just to keep their houses warm over the winter of '84-'85 and the impact that had on people.
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But if the material is reclassified as a hazardous waste, coal groups say that coal ash would be irreversibly stigmatized and any ancillary use of it would evaporate.
Considering the opportunities to treat gas that would otherwise be flared, to unlock otherwise uneconomic shale and conventional gas fields, and increasing opportunities for biomass, waste and coal conversion, small-scale GTL may well have a significant niche to fill in our emerging energy picture.
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Avg coal waste per unit: 300, 000 tons of coal ash annually.
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Coal waste mountains exposed to air started churning out acidic water, polluting groundwater and streams.
Originally they were derived from coal-tar, the black viscous waste product left over from distilling coal for gas.
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Prosecutors said the company also illegally stored and disposed of hazardous waste without a permit, instructing workers to mix coal tar sludge, a listed hazardous waste that contains benzene, on the ground.
The Section 45 credit is also available for energy producers who use geothermal sources, animal waste, municipal waste, biomass and refined coal.
At the time it held a public consultation about the plans to develop this alternative facility to produce about 110, 000 tonnes of dried waste a year as a coal substitute.
Rail freight currently accounts for only 6% of all freight, mainly bulk coal, aggregates, waste and steel.
Right now, coal combustion byproducts are categorized as a solid waste.
Right now we are chained to dirty and outdated energy sources that contribute to global warming, including oil and coal and to nuclear power, which produces dangerous waste.
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Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural gas, many panel makers are nevertheless grappling with a hazardous waste problem.
Dominion is converting its three remaining coal-fired power stations in Virginia to those that can also run on waste wood, all of which are expected to be operational by year-end.
The typical coal-fired power plant, for example, loses over half the input energy as waste heat before the first electron zips out of the facility.
Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times more hazardous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney.
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