ApocaDocs: TVA memo spins environmental impact of coal ash disaster

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Posted Sat Jan 24 2009: from Associated Press:


	TVA memo spins environmental impact of coal ash disaster http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1232833062 The massive coal ash spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant last month wasn't so much "catastrophic" as it was a "sudden, accidental release." That's according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press that was prepared by TVA's 50-member public relations staff for briefing news media the day after the disaster at the Kingston Fossil Plant, about 40 miles west of Knoxville. The nation's largest public utility has been accused by environmentalists and affected residents of soft-pedaling the seriousness of the flood of toxin-laden ash that filled inlets of the Emory River and swept away or damaged lakeside homes.

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'Doc Jim says:

Sounds like somebody peed their pants!