Comments on: “Clean” coal ash flood may make new Superfund site (Update #4)

By: Scholars and Rogues » The Weekly Carboholic: CO satellite lost, GOSAT gets “first light”

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:56:15 +0000

[...] release of hazardous coal ash from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee (here, here, here, and here). Over a billion gallons of semi-solid ash mixed with water poured out from [...]

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:51:10 +0000

Mind? Heck no, I don’t think anybody would mind…

By: Iowa Floods

Iowa Floods — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:28:30 +0000

Loved your insight!! For once someone got everything correct!! Would you mind if I put a blogroll link back to your post?

By: Jude Nagurney Camwell

Jude Nagurney Camwell — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:31:11 +0000

Great coverage here. Thanks. At Knoxvillebiz.com: “The amount of coal-ash sludge released Monday when an earthen dike failed at a Kingston Fossil Plant retention pond was triple what TVA has estimated.” http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/26/ash-spill-tva-triples-amount-sludge-released/

I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr’s law firm Kennedy Madonna, LLP, and the Levin Papantonio Law Firm have joined to investigate the Tennessee Coal Spill and will pursue claims on behalf of property owners.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:04:15 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is no such thing as clean coal. It’s filthy and destructive when it’s mined. It’s filthy and destructive when it’s processed. And it’s filthy and destructive when it’s burned. Trying to “clean it up” will only make it more expensive and spread around the filth.

By: WB42

WB42 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:48:31 +0000

Thanks Brian, our family’s home made it fine (you can see it in the vid above) but we’re worried it could be lost in the long haul. Rumors, and that’s all they are at this point, are circulating that TVA is going to buy everyone on the street out. We really don’t know because they haven’t been by to talk to anyone. It would be a shame, between my father and grandfather, we’ve owned property out their for nearly 40 years.

As far as the getting things cleaned up by spring goes, TVA is able to regulate the water levels on Watts Bar (and other lakes) with its dam system. I’m sure they’ll try to keep it as low as they can for as long as possible, although I doubt it will help that much. Getting heavy equipment on the river bed will be nearly impossible anyway. Whatever happens it will be a long, noisy process.

By: Softcraze: Technology Journal, Gadget News » 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:16:47 +0000

[...] Tennessee as well as millions of people living downstream in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. TVA says that as yet the spill (which they are characterizing as a mudslide or landslide, but frankly [...]

By: 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst | News for Greens

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:54:48 +0000

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:49:21 +0000

Good question, WB42. I’m not sure, although it can’t do your property values any good.

I suspect a great deal will depend on how much, and how fast, the slide can be cleaned up. It’ll really be a problem if the slide’s not cleaned up before spring (assuming that Tennessee has the same spring rains that Colorado has and that I remember from college in Pennsylvania).

By: WB42

WB42 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:41:21 +0000

what does it mean for homeowners (especially ones on the peninsula) if the area does become a superfund site? Will we lose them?

By: TVA Coal Ash Spill Dec 22 2008 « Chamay0’s Bias Opinion

TVA Coal Ash Spill Dec 22 2008 « Chamay0’s Bias Opinion — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:25:54 +0000

By: chris tackett

chris tackett — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:57:36 +0000

Great coverage. We shared it with our audience and linked here: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/tennessee-coal-ash-slurry-spill-48-times-bigger-than-exxon-valdez-spill.php

By: Scholars and Rogues » Tennessee coal ash slide, Day 3

Scholars and Rogues » Tennessee coal ash slide, Day 3 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:56:03 +0000

[...] environment [ Comments: none ] The Kingston Steam Plant ashslide is already being called the southeast’s worst environmental disaster by some environmentalists and journalists. It appears that some of the national media outlets are [...]

By: Clean Coal? An ashy conundrum

Clean Coal? An ashy conundrum — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:41:45 +0000

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:57:44 +0000

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By: This is "Clean Coal": Massive Coal Sludge Spill Dwarfs Exxon Valdez Disaster

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:05:49 +0000

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By: This is "Clean Coal": Massive Coal Sludge Spill Dwarfs Exxon Valdez Disaster

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:05:23 +0000

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By: This is "Clean Coal": Massive Coal Sludge Spill Dwarfs Exxon Valdez Disaster | Alternative Energy News

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:02:18 +0000

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:01:59 +0000

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By: don’t drink the water — it’s spoiled — get angry WITH me!

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:36:50 +0000

[...] though the EPA is monitoring toxins in the water and still claims the stuff is safe to drink, downstream fish are already dying. must just be a [...]