Aerial footage: TVA storage pond breach in Harriman

[roywesthouston]

I would love to see the look on Wallce692=0 face when they tell him his baby died after an asthma attack dirty coal from suffocation or his mother dying from cancer or cardiac arrest from his clean coal. Perhpas he would be a little less of a jerk off bold faced liar if this had happened to him. A man like him is one step below a great ape. Even a great ape knows when it is not healthy. Moron

[roywesthouston]

billions of tons of toxic sludge is pumped into the air and water by coal companies who have bribed politicians to allow them to kill babies with their black death. They are nothning more than cheap liars and thugs. These men have no shame for their cowardly acts. They have killed planet earth with their sickening lies and billions of tons of toxic sludge......

[roywesthouston]

What is collateral damage? yes these babies and elderly do not have a chance as coal companies lie to the public. I am sick of these thugs in suits. They belong in prison with the rest of their ilk. for them it is all about money and I am sick of their misleading lies so they can continue to peddle their black death.

[roywesthouston]

tens of thousands of babies die every year as they suffer asthma attacks and suffocate by the so called clean coal. These thugs in suits are no better than the stone cold killers on death row.

[zwallace691]

Piss on environmental justice. Dont build a home next to a Coal ash pond. There are pollutants but it far from toxic. I see it everyday. TVA is run by the fed. Everyone in the industry knew they were a disaster waiting to happen. Their pond was a joke to everyone else. We were told it was like an entire serving of jello sitting on top of a dinner plate.

[jakkman69]

We have corrupt gov't here in TN. All those people are still rich and happy. So everything is A-OK. Rich corrupt politicians are happy and comforatable. So what the fuck is all the fuss about...........

[pchaplo]

Until I saw this, I did not comprehend the massive scope of this disaster!

[revseanc]

We need to get this news out. TVA is controlling the media and trying to keep this quiet.

[jake18274]

No need to worry Obama will fix all with his clean coal technology..

What a shame this is I hear it is the biggest disaster ever with no news coverage what a joke american media.....

[colten90210]

yea I live a mile down the road and t.v.a. just acts like its no big deal???

[flyerzrule]

if this had happened anywhere else in the country, it would be a much bigger deal. Just like Katrina, people are trying to ignore the South.

[DoJapan]

People aren't trying to ignore the south. People are ignorant. Most Americans lack intuition, independent thought, and don't know their own head from their ass. This story is deliberately not being reported by the media to protect their interests (the energy industry).

[CORPARANOID]

E/1 needs 2Make a Difference &Change their World now. The Emory &Clinch rivers were hit w/this toxic coal, affects the Whole Eastern Tennesee+ Region: Cities &Towns, ecological biosphere. TRUTH: COAL/Nuclear/GAS-OIL are NOT CLEAN they all put CO2 into our air &poison wherever they put the by-product. Go Green or B turned GREEN. Invest in yourself; become self-sustainable communities (green energy, farming, local rail transit). The times they R a Changing. Truth Wins Out &more is coming. WAKEUP

[Krisodom0927]

Why has this not made national news??? Someone needs to pay and pay really big for this one.

[DoJapan]

SERIOUSLY! The only news network i have heard of that is covering this story is CBS and PBS. This is an enormous national disaster, you would think the cable newsies would be on it with 24/7 omnipotent coverage like they were for our recent national tragedies. Alas, Americans are stupid, they lack intuition, independent thought, and most don't know their head from their ass. Americans deserve to eat toxic lead, mercury, and arsenic...

[TERRIROBSON]

It looks like some US citizens are getting a taste of what US resource extraction companies do in other countries in the name of free market, the one big difference is that in the US those companies don't use the National Guard to shoot and torture anyone who opposes them....YET....

[markotd44]

Where were all you people before the Pond Broke? Everyone is such an advocate for green, yet no one does squat until its too late. 3 weeks from now half of you people will be youtubing what ever the cover story on Yahoo is! I hate that we have destroyed this planet I can't even go remote hiking without finding a Frkn coke bottle. Too bad we are so conceded in our species that we forgot who our mother really is, and its gauranteed she will have the last laugh! (ask thailand, or new orleans)

[coachbrp]

General Electric just straight dumps their heavy metals directly into the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers.

[pcc7407]

"Clean Coal": The biggest bold-faced lie of all. Nothing about coal is "clean", from ungodly mountain-top removal, to all of the pollutants pumped into the air, to the billions of tons of solid waste that have to go somewhere, as we have seen here.

The tough questions - are we able to reduce electricity consumption? What are we willing to sacrifice in our daily lives? Should humans be responsible for what they do?

Blame is deserved, but who should be blamed? For the answer, look in a mirror.

[marimbadearco]

Time for solar on rooftops -- remember, like the LATE 1970s ON THE WHITE HOUSE. The man they named our nation's capital airport for took them down. Reagan coulda quoted Phil Ochs: "pretty smart on my part"

[Parasome]

this is Bull Shit, we need better methods of handling and storing harmful materials. We need to update own facilities or this bs will happen again.

[WAvegetarian]

Actually, what we need are better methods of not creating "harmful materials" in the first place.

[DoJapan]

Yeah, and in the mean time there should be regulations prohibiting the storage of these materials ON THE SIDE OF A FUCKING MAJOR RIVER SOURCE!

[JihadSmurf]

Sounds delicious to me :)

[WAvegetarian]

You are all missing the point. If you build a massive 3 million cubic foot swimming pool full of toxic sludge laced with heavy metals at the top of a hill above houses, the poison will eventually flow downhill and cause serious problems. Since our coal mining happens through destruction of the Appalachian Mountains, the toxic waste is always conveniently located at the top of a hill above people's homes. Don't even get me started on the environmental justice or ecological effects of this.

[silky127]

did'nt you hear, shit flows down hill----always

[WAvegetarian]

Right, so why don't we work on finding a way to not create shit at the top of the hill?

[Parasome]

That is a difficult to ask, "to not create harmful materials." Example, solar panels create harmful materials as its waste product. Solar panels are environmentally friendly in the long run, but building causes waste.

People are Stupid! This is our Earth, our Home. We need to preserve and value it!

[DoJapan]

I think the bigger issue here is not the creating of waste products, but the decision to store these products adjacent to major rivers... very sad... I blame the democrats in congress, the ones who claim to be progressive and should be hammering the message home, more than anything for having no spine.

[jjrglobal]

The level of incompetence in our federal government is astounding. From the levee's in New Orleans to national defense, can they do anything right? If we paid 100% of our income to the federal government, they would still be incompetent ass clowns. What are we paying for?

[JihadSmurf]

Fuck the south with their right wing anti environment retards. Let them rot. I hope all their kids have to eat this shit.

[kakaokaka]

hups, it seems like somebody's been a bit brainwashed ;)

[SriLankaR]

We share this earth---letting the south rot is letting yourself rot too...JihadSmurf YOUR KIDS END UP EATING SHIT TOO!

My advice is for you to Put your energy into positive change rather than narrow minded & short sighted judgementalism.

[luckytn]

Here we go. Don't invest in infrastructure, and you get disaster.