NIPSCO is cleaning up decades of coal ash byproduct, but advocates say the coal ash NIPSCO plans to leave on the site puts groundwater and Lake Michigan in danger of contamination in Michigan City and beyond.
The Michigan City Generating Station has been burning coal for electricity for nearly a century.
“It will also be the last coal-fired facility we’ll have on our system that’s retiring by 2026-2028 time frame,” said Nick Meyer, vice president of state communications for NIPSCO’s parent company, NiSource. Ashley Williams, who leads the group Just Transition Northwest Indiana, says NIPSCO’s efforts aren’t going far enough.
“Made land … is really not unique to this site, it really exists across much of the Great Lakes,” Meyer said. Williams of Just Transition Northwest Indiana has gone out in a boat to look at the seawall from the lake and says it’s already in disrepair. But groups in Northwest Indiana say the oversight is lacking. The LaPorte County and state NAACP groups, Earthjustice and others have filed suit against the EPA, arguing the current coal ash regulations are allowing “hundreds of dangerous and leaking toxic dumps to escape critical safeguards”.
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