No one has successfully removed selenium from a waterway. The Elk River is toxic because the Elkford coal mines have left slag piles to leach into the river for decades, and only removing the piles will stop that process.
No amount of royalties are worth killing a river.
#AbLeg
The water contamination, and the environmental and health risks are not worth the minuscule economic benefit this UCP government is chasing. It’s not worth passing these risks and liabilities onto our children.
The UCP gov needs to face the truth and start listening to science and experts. #ableg