Aerial footage: TVA storage pond breach in Harriman

Footage shot from a helicopter of the area affected by the TVA pond breach. Video by Chloe White/knoxnews.com

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• tva
• pond
• breach
• ash
• coal
• steam
• plant
• tennessee
• harriman

[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.

[Krisodom0927]

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

[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.....