TVA Coal Ash Spill Emory River Tennessee

Sandra Diaz, National Field Coordinator for Appalachian Voices, Hurricane Creekeeper John Wathen and Watauga Riverkeeper Donna Lisenby paddle up the Clinch and Emory Rivers to record the conditions after a 5.4 million cubic yard spill of coal waste from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Coal Plant.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• #coal
• Allia
• Appalachian
• ash
• Clinch
• coal
• Emory
• River
• Riverkeeper
• spill
• TVA
• Voices
• waste
• Watauga
• Waterkeeper

[brysonswife32]

tva=terrorism

[nyarkenya46]

I used to think that these corporations only hate black people and other minorities with a passion.

You better add the powerless poor and trusting white people to their menu. All they do is to keep people ignorant and patriotic. I understand they are now using this toxic stuff to build golf courses for unsuspecting golf lovers. How loving!

[heathhampton]

It does not matter what you say about coal fact is it keeps your lights on even in the TVA areas. Clean Coal don't really matter to me I say burn it till its gone then burn the natural gas. Not until then. I will agree with one thing and one only that is strip mining needs to be managed better no reason to loose mountain tops to the extreme that it is going on. however deep coal mining keep on going keep on going til the last block.

[abbot124]

Storing fly ash isn't a viable solution.The TVA seem unaware of the new RockTron technology, designed to recycle 100% fresh and stockpiled fly ash to produce industrial eco-minerals. The $5 billion cleanup budget could build 100 RockTron recycling plants instead, saving power plants millions, preserving the environment and protecting our valuable natural resources. Check out RockTron fly ash on the search engines!

[nazfan01]

Well,you just said the main keyword in your own statement here," they had to make sure it was safe for them to come in and clean this mess" Must anyone else say more?

[smithsgirl07]

Well I have to say that this is all wrong, my dad and uncles are on the cleanup site, they had to make sure it was safe for them to come in and clean this mess up, and they were stopped in March to wait on paper work to be signed. Get all your facts straight on this!!!! My dad was working December 30th and worked 7/12's all the way through March on this clean and is going back to finish it this wk they had to stop the cleanup to wait on paper work.

[kitsune692smom]

For a week after this happened, the TVA was claiming that there was nothing in the water or air harmful to humans. Thousands of dead fish? It was the cold weather according to their "experts". Our state government sent our own people down there and they found a lot of nasty stuff in the water.

[tostrong4you]

Nice report, watched it with interest.

[Dragothalas]

Great documentation, have you forwarded this to various conservation-minded GRO's?

[MTCatman]

Thank you for the video. What a mess and shame! Yup, NO such thing as clean coal! What is even sadder is the animals which can not escape like humans can. Should be a crime punishable by prison time!