I Love Being the One Who Told You So!!

As I said earlier, much more to this story than what the MSM are covering. This story will get bigger because there are other folks like me, with relatives in the area that are going to be affected, who will not let the PR whores get away with minimizing this tragedy:

From FireDogLake website:

This week TVA deliberately dumped massive amounts of toxic corporate waste matter into a shared public resource: America's broadcast media. Why did the PR flacks who ooze around TVA's headquarters give America such generous piles of steaming corporate lies for Christmas? Aside from the fact that's what PR flacks do for a living, the well-paid professional liars on TVA's payroll had an extra-special motive to stuff our Holiday stockings with deceit: TVA failed to construct dikes that actually worked. TVA's professional liars had a bonus motive, as well: two months after the October 2008 annual inspection showed the dike had a "wet spot" indicating a leak, TVA's crack inspectors hadn't finished their formal inspection report. So last Sunday when the dike at TVA's Kingston Plant leaked for the third time in six years, and TVA's toxic wastes clogged the Emory River on their way to the Tennessee River (the Ohio River's largest tributary), TVA was neck deep in apparent liability. For their emergency response, TVA trundled out the usual PR zombies to clog US media with bald-faced lies. So...what will TVA run out of first: toxic corporate PR, or toxic power plant coal waste?

Without knowing how much PR waste (and how many PR zombies) TVA has stockpiled along with their toxic coal wastes, we may never know the answer. If the size of TVA's two Big Lies this week is any indication, the Carbon Lords from the Volunteer State have amassed vast stockpiles of first class Grade A PR sludge. TVA's first Big Lie? TVA simply lied about the volume of the toxic waste spill. TVA's second Big Lie? TVA lied when they claimed the public waterways contaminated with their toxic waste were "safe". Who knows what their PR zombies are concocting for the next Big Lie. At the rate they are going -- and failing -- I wouldn't be surprise if for Big Lie # 3 they tell us what spilled into the river was actually reindeer muck from Santa's stables.

Also, check out the local news media's coverag:

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/24/ash-spill-two-prior-breaches-retention-site/

More On Coal Ash Devastation:

I said yesterday that the TVA spokespeople were in crisis mode, so truth is the first victim.
Today comes more information from the Power Plant people and, guess what, things are worse than they first reported:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A burst dike at a coal-fired power plant in eastern Tennessee spilled millions more cubic yards of ash than originally estimated, officials said Friday, and residents fear the muck coating their neighborhood is endangering the area's drinking water.

The state, however, said Friday that tests show water entering the local treatment plant is safe.

About 5.4 million cubic yards of coal fly ash, a byproduct of burning coal, broke out of a retention pond at the Kingston Fossil Plant, Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman John Moulton said.

The TVA, which as the nation's largest utility company supplies electricity to 8.8 million people, first estimated that Monday's breach had spilled less than half that amount.

Moulton could not explain the discrepancy but said TVA's first tests showed no threat to the area's drinking water. The spill damaged 12 homes and covered 300 acres with sludge in Harriman, about 35 miles west of Knoxville.

"We are cleaning it up," he said. "That's where our efforts are focused and we are making some headway. Both on land and in the water, we are containing it and skimming it off the water."

Christopher Copeland, a resident whose land is covered in ash and debris, said he is not drinking the local water and is keeping his children inside until he can send them to a relative's house, "because I don't feel comfortable with them around here."