Why was this not anywhere in the news?

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Massive spill of toxic waste in the Tennessee valley at coal fired power plant:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XnJUSHpTm-E&feature=related

Scary.

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It was all over the New York Times.

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Ken,

Yes, but who reads the Times?? :slight_smile:

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LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/...ec27,0,7989758.story

NY Times: http://query.nytimes.com/...spill&srchst=cse

NBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/green/Tennessee_Valley_Coal_Ash_Spill_Buries_400_Acres.html

Tons of stories.

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It was all over the New York Times.

damn, you just beat me to it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/us/25sludge.html?_r=1

and the investigation has revealed that the damages is worse than previously estimated. i seem to recall it being in the news, but it was israel-gaza time by the time that the damage was being understood, so the coverage was swallowed up.

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And that wasn’t all…

TVA has released muddy sludge once again, this time on the Ocoee River in East Tennessee.
Efforts to repair one of a series of dams on the river released sediment into the rocky channel over the weekend, agency spokeswoman Barbara Martocci confirmed Thursday. The U.S. Forest Service discovered the problem Sunday.
Two days later, a section of the Ocoee River Gorge — a world-renowned location for whitewater sports and site of Olympic competition during the 1996 Atlanta games — was about half-filled with black, foul-smelling muck, said Tisha Calabrese-Benton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Environment and Conservation.
“In addition, Forest Service employees were walking the stream bank picking up what dead fish they could find,” she said Thursday in an e-mail. “No live fish were seen.”
Martocci said the TVA’s repairs to the dam required sluicing water downstream to lower water for workers’ safety.
“We did that Saturday and Sunday, and it pulled sediment through the sluice gate down the river,” she said.
“It’s just what’s on the river bottom. It’s the same thing that’s on any river bottom.”
TVA officials were already at work trying to clean up a massive spill of coal ash sludge at its Kingston power plant near Harriman, Tenn., about 60 miles north of the Ocoee location.
TVA had sought no permits and hadn’t coordinated with the state environment department about its special operation at the dam, and had not coordinated with Tennessee State Parks or the U.S. Forest Service, Calabrese-Benton said.

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TVA had sought no permits and hadn’t coordinated with the state environment department about its special operation at the dam, and had not coordinated with Tennessee State Parks or the U.S. Forest Service, Calabrese-Benton said.

Interesting.

So If I want to build a dog house in my back yard, I need to get the right sort of permits and approval, but the TVA can do anything they want when they want.

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As long as you give it a nice sounding name you could. clean dog shit vs. dog shit