Months after ash spill, Tennessee town still choking

[dbackjon]

The story
Pamela Hampton stands at the kitchen sink, her gaze trained out of the window of her family's small hillside home. The disaster site is not visible from where she stands, but she knows it is there, down the hill, around a short stretch of highway, less than a mile away.

Six months after the largest industrial spill in U.S. history, Hampton, her husband, Charles, and their three young children say they still do not feel comfortable going outside.

"Everything here is changed," Hampton said, her eyes glistening. "[The landscape] reminds me of what you see on the moon. It breaks my heart."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/13/co ... nnSTCPhoto

[Appaholic]

But Jon, the TVA said the clean-up was on schedule and almost complete....this is obviously another attempt by the envirowhackos to sully the name of an extraordinary organization like the TVA....they are almost as good as the COE....

[Skjellyfetti]

CLEAN COAL!!

[AZGrizFan]

CLEAN COAL!!

You want energy independence or not?

[dbackjon]

This has nothing to do with energy independence, but lax oversight, regulators not doing their job, and lack of strong enviromental legislation.

[AZGrizFan]

This has nothing to do with energy independence, but lax oversight, regulators not doing their job, and lack of strong enviromental legislation.

Quiet. I'm trying to draw out the shy one.

[Skjellyfetti]

CLEAN COAL!!

You want energy independence or not?

Yes, but not by destroying my trout streams and leveling my mountains.

[Appaholic]

[quote="Skjellyfetti]



CLEAN COAL!!

You want energy independence or not?[/quote][/quote]

You mean energy independence for China, our largest coal exporter? My wish is that the public would quit getting caught up in the unproven data that is coal emmissions effects on global warming and instead focus on the proven effects caused by irresponsible mining practices....