huffingtonpost.com - 12/29/2008
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This is a monumental and unprecedented environmental catastrophe. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) coal ash disaster is now estimated at 5.3 million cubic yards of waste, or almost twice as large as the 2.8 million cubic yards of debris generated by the World Trade Center collapse.
The most comprehensive aerial video of the spill is here:
This spill is affecting tributaries of the Tennessee River, a major river system and a drinking water source for millions of people downstream ...
tennessean.com - 12/23/2008
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tennessean.com —
HARRIMAN, Tenn. Millions of yards of ashy
sludge broke through a dike at TVA's Kingston coal-fired...
plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres, knocking one home off its foundation and putting environmentalists on edge about toxic chemicals that may be ...
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Flood of sludge breaks TVA dike | www.tennessean.com | ...
tva.gov - 12/23/2008
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tva.gov —
kingston Kingston Fossil Plant is located on Watts
Bar Reservoir on the Tennessee River near Kingston, Tennessee....
At the time it was finished in 1955, Kingston was the largest coal-burning power plant in the world, a distinction it held for more than ...
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Kingston Fossil Plant
dirtycoaltva.blogspot.com - 12/30/2008
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dirtycoaltva.blogspot.com —
James and I arrived in Stevenson, AL at
the Widows Creek TVA plant around 4p.m. and were...
met by police blockades at all access roads. The only vehicles passing through were security vehicles and pump trucks. We took a side route and asked directions ...
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TVA Coal is Killing Tennessee
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A First Hand Account of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster in Kingston, TN
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
Here’s a first hand account of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster written up by one of our long time allies, Dave Cooper from Mountain Justice and the Mountaintop Removal Roadshow. Dave has tirelessly traveled to communities and campuses around the country promoting the struggle against mountaintop removal, now he’s on the ground in eastern Tennessee documenting the TVA’s coal ash disaster with United Mountain Defense.
You can see the most comprehensive aerial video of the disaster here
And you can see continuing updates on ...
Tennessee Disaster Proves Once Again that Clean Coal is a Myth
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
... The sludge is a combination of coal fly ash and water, and is a bi-product of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. Local residents are rightfully concerned that their water is contaminated with arsenic and other heavy metals. Dave Cooper, longtime anti-coal activist, arrived quickly on the scene, and his account for the Huffington Post is the best on-the-ground reporting yet. ...
Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster Dwarfs Exxon Spill
EarthFirst.com —
... David Cooper gave The Huffington Post a first-hand account of how UMD has been coordinating a citizen response to the disaster, handling the media, and testing the water. Of his detainment, he says: ...
2009 New Year's Resolutions to help big coal
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... 2. You can bend the truth out of shape, but try not to break it in half (Part 1). If you can't keep your toxic sludge to yourself, at least be honest about what happened. When your coal storage pond ruptures and floods an area with 5.3 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash sludge - debris that is twice the volume of that resulting from the attacks on the World Trade Center - you don't get to label it ...
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