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TVA Strikes Again — Second Coal Ash Spill in Alabama
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... Lord have mercy TVA. Stop trying to kill us. Come on!
Read about it in the Knoxville, TN paper.
STEVENSON, Ala. - The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured but the spill is now contained.
TVA spokesman John Moulton said the leak in the pond was discovered at about 6 a.m. at the plant near Stevenson, Ala. He said most of the material from the leak flowed into a settling pond at the plant site but some spilled into Widows Creek.
The federal utility says the leak of what it ...
Breaking: Second TVA Spill in Northeastern Alabama
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
It seems they've gone and done it again. From the Knoxville News Sentinel: STEVENSON, Ala. - The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured but the spill is now contained. TVA spokesman John Moulton said the leak in the pond was discovered at about 6 a.m. at the plant near Stevenson, Ala. He said most of the material from the leak flowed into a settling pond at the plant site but some spilled into Widows Creek. The federal utility says the leak of what it described as gypsum has ...
Strike Two: Another TVA Coal Sludge Spill in Northeast Alabama
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
... Authority spilled over a billion gallons of coal ash waste and sludge into the communities and waterways of Eastern Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. The spill was larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
NOW, the Tennessee Valley Authority has had a second coal ash spill in northeast Alabama near their Widow’s Creek coal plant.
How long are we going to keep destroying communities with our dangerous addiction to coal?
Read more in the Knoxville News
Iowa Cleans Up Its (Coal) Act: Cites TVA as Factor
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... the lining of coal ash pits, but under pressure from the utilities and the University of Iowa, the DNR caved in to call for “up to three years to see whether the toxic ash was polluting waterways before requiring liners and monitoring at new disposal sites.”
We know that even “safe” disposal sites can generate catastrophic pollution of our land, homes and water from the coal waste they hold (Exhibit A: Kingston, TN, Exhibit B: northeast Alabama, Exhibit C: Ocoee River, TN)
Here’s my favorite part: ...
