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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 07:55 PM Original message |
Spill at Tennessee Coal Plant Creates Environmental Disaster worse than EXXON VALDESE! |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Clean" coal? |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You took the words right out of my head...LOL....n/t |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Our Weather Folks here in North Carolina always list "particulates" as our Primary Source of Air |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. asthma is huge there and in later life it means heart disease |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Yes, that and Charlotte's inadequate mass transit system... |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. An imaginary proecess that exists only in the minds of the coal industry executives. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. "clean coal" my ash! |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. The same exact thing happened in West Virginia in 2002. there was a documentary about it on TV |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's why I'm focusing on Obama's Pick for FCC CHAIR as his MOST IMPORTANT! |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. That WV sludge flood was over 6 years ago. I doubt if any of the major media covered it. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Did you read the OP about the latest Toxic Sludge Dump" This is NW and not 6 yrs Ago! |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I read. I am saying that it is not the first one...and the people have been fighting against this |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. OMFG! Maybe this will show Obama that coal is NOT the way to go! |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. coal fucking kills |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Most of you are too young to remember how Coal Burning Stoves...Smoked up your Houses |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. I am not that old, but I did live in a house that had once used |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
26. My grandmother's house had a coal chute |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. This happened about 25 miles from my house... |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Thanks for your "birds eye view." Please keep us posted when it all comes "down river." |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I may have to take a ride tomorrow... check out the dam, then a few spots I know upriver... |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Well...do what you can and thanks.. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Maybe like Pete Seeger got funding to clean up NY's Hudson River...we |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. The Waterkeeper Alliance may already have a local chapter in your area. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:54 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Where I live now in NC that went BLUE for OBAMA ( I might add) does have some River Keepers |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
18. The Tennessean Is Blogging "Narrative" Storytelling And Wondering Why National Media Is Ignoring It |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. We don't have any media that cares about "the rest of us anymore." Would that be it? |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 08:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Well, Jebus, It's Just Some Tennessee Hicks, You Know ... |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:14 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Reading that on Christmas Eve...is very sad.. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. Saw a clip on CNN earlier |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
28. Wonder why this disaster is hiding in plain sight? |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-25-08 01:36 AM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Two reasons |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
30. NBC Nightly News did a story on it tonight at 6:30 EST. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-24-08 09:58 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Thanks...we need to check out the site. I know CNN seems to be trying to do some Enviro reporting.. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-25-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
34. Oh my goodness! |
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