In Kansas, there has been an ongoing fight to get two coal power plants approved. We were bombarded with ‘green’ commercials, telling us how dirty coal power was.
Who paid for these commercials? ONEOK...a large natural gas company.
The gas companies have been skirting this line for a while now...and if the whacko environmentalists (whom they financed) succeed in halting fracking, they will regret it.
Fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy. This happens when the fly ash is burned and the uranium and thorium contained in the original lumps are concentrated up to 10X in the fly ash and out the smokestack it goes.