At Plant in Coal Ash Spill, Toxic Deposits by the Ton..they lied .....where's bob corker?

[spanone]

where's mr corker? haven't seen his outrage over this, it's right in his backyard.
c'mon bob, you couldn't find enough cameras when you were running down the auto companies....i live in tennessee and corker is missing in action


In a single year, a coal-fired electric plant deposited more than 2.2 million pounds of toxic materials in a holding pond that failed last week, flooding 300 acres in East Tennessee, according to a 2007 inventory filed with the Environmental Protection Agency.

The inventory, disclosed by the Tennessee Valley Authority on Monday at the request of The New York Times, showed that in just one year, the plant’s byproducts included 45,000 pounds of arsenic, 49,000 pounds of lead, 1.4 million pounds of barium, 91,000 pounds of chromium and 140,000 pounds of manganese. Those metals can cause cancer, liver damage and neurological complications, among other health problems.

And the holding pond, at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a T.V.A. plant 40 miles west of Knoxville, contained many decades’ worth of these deposits.

For days, authority officials have maintained that the sludge released in the spill is not toxic, though coal ash has long been known to contain dangerous concentrations of heavy metals. On Monday, a week after the spill, the authority issued a joint statement with the E.P.A. and other agencies recommending that direct contact with the ash be avoided and that pets and children should be kept away from affected areas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/us/30sludge.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1230608692-WAbEBL4TyQ4N/pHcKFkoMw&pagewanted=print

[valerief]

1. They'll probably take the heavy metals and make toys for children with it.

Welcome to New China!

[Hydra]

2. "Clean coal! Get your clean coal!" n/t

[gratuitous]

3. Corker's only one man

There's only so much he can do, and right now, he's busy union-busting. Geez. Who knew being reduced to such a small portion of Congress would put such a strain on all the evil the GOP has to accomplish? Everybody's gonna have to double up.

[anigbrowl]

4. If they're smart, they'll just move everyone out of there

Astoundingly, the number of people directly affected is very small. what they're going to do about keeping it out of the groundwater I don't know, but as far as the local residents go, they should all be evacuated, heavily compensated, and area declared unsafe for habitation. It'll cost everyone a lot less in the long run.

edit: I meant to say, permanently.