Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Hargrove TVA Buys X-Box's Instead of Stable Coal Ash Retaining Walls
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM
A TVA card program meant primarily for courting its power distributors with gifts and booze is burning through roughly $75 million a year, according to the Associated Press.
That's right, folks. While this country's largest public utility skimped on structurally sound methods of storing fly ash, allegedly in the name of keeping rates low, its employees were blowing money like its cool on ridiculous, unnecessary shit.
Meanwhile, we have possibly the most grievous natural disaster in this nation's history--likely to cost the company, and maybe rate-payers, millions of dollars--while TVA got all spendthrift on things like safety awards for its employees. Irony, anyone?
Yesterday TVA submitted its corrective action plan to the state, outlining its plan to un-f@&k the lives of the people in the spill-zone. This I'll be watching with great interest. In the case of farmers Terry and Sandy Gupton, how exactly does one go about decontaminating the spring that waters their cattle? No doubt heavy metals have leached into the subsurface water and the soil of their hay meadow.
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Brantley Hargrove--I had to laugh at your use of the English language. The profanity was... refreshing? Certainly surprising. "there cattle" are probably dying from lead poisoning. Oh, if any TVA guys want to play Halo, my gamertag is DworkinX09.
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Why thank you, Damon. Truly, when you've seen the mess they've made of this pretty little piece of East Tennessee, only explosions of profanity will do.
Caught that errant "there," too.
That spill isn't a NATURAL disaster (like a hurricane or tornado), that's a man-made disaster. And they haven't even starting cleaning it up yet.
Any chance you could link to the AP story? That TVA would spend $75 million on gifts to distributors, in this era of ratepayer abuse, is outrageous.
TVA May Stop Using Ash Ponds in Kingston: http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4898#more-4898
