Can we stop flying ash from coal based power plants falling into rivers, sea and open ponds?

Question

There is great hussle about a coal based power project coming up at Padubidri in Udupi Taluk near Mangalore, Karnataka. The Government and the Nagarjuna Company are bent upon establishing the project despite opposition from local population and fishermen. If there is absolutely no control on flying ash from this proposed project from falling into open wells, ponds, rivers and ocean then it is not right to start a project which destroys ecology. Of course we need power for our development. But development should not be the cause of for our destruction due to ecological damages. Hence, please answer the above question preferably by poeple who are living near such power projects.

Answer 1

Google "Green day + NRDC"
Its a program just about what ur sayin
PLUS GREEN DAY IS IN IT!

Answer 2

I am 57 years old now and I spent all of my childhood living in an area where coal was the main source of power generation. This was for public consumption as well as industrial plants and homes. I mean that the sky was almost always gray. Those smokestacks and chimneys had been belching out tons upon tons of smoke and ash day and night for a century. When I left home to join the Army, I had not seen stars in the sky for years. Yet, myself and almost all of the people I grew up with are still alive and reasonably healthy given our age and reckless youth.
Don't worry about it. Agitators, naysayers, Chicken Little's and nattering nabobs are going to be all over you but don't listen to them. Fear is the devil's tool. You and your environment will survive the experience just fine. Todays modern coal-fired power generation is a thousand times cleaner than the ones I grew up with. This is not to say that the ecology will not be effected because it will - to a degree - but the damage isn't debilitating or permanent and hopefully in the future your people will be able to switch to safe, clean, efficient nuclear power.

Answer 3

yes by using electrostatic precipitators u can refer it in wikipedia encyclopedia web address www.en.wikipedia.org