“The worst man made environmental disaster since Chernobyl”
Resources on the Tennessee Toxic Coal Ash Spill
Early in the morning of Dec. 22nd, there was a massive spill of coal ash in Harriman, TN at the Kingston steam plant. Reportedly, as much as 2.6 million cubic yards, or nearly 500 million gallons, of ash and slurry spilled into a tributary of the Tennessee River when an earthen retaining wall was breached at the Tennesee Valley Authority’s coal-fired plant. Here are some informative resources on this disaster:
From Wikipedia: Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
From Democracy Now: Spill at Tennessee Coal Plant Creates Environmental Disaster
From Greenpeace: Environmental disaster in Tennessee
From One Earth: Tennessee's Toxic Nightmare: Arsenic Levels 35 to 300 Times EPA Standard for Drinking Water
From the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
SACE Updates on TVA Coal Disaster as of Monday, January 5, 2009
TVA spills over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal waste into the Tennessee River. The video below gives some idea of its mass.
TVA says the spill is 5.3 million cubic yards - the worst man made environmental disaster since Chernobyl
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