Dirty Coal: Memorable Quotes #1

In view of the Cape Wind opposition, the environmental destruction of DIRTY ENERGY is overlooked by the corporate owned media. Some of the comments emanating in defense of this mess are ludicrous.

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STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) — A waste pond at a coal-burning power plant in northeast Alabama ruptured Friday, but the spill was quickly contained, utility officials said.
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Too funny! We can trust these people right?
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In 2005, the utility reported depositing 445,200 tons of gypsum in ponds at the Widows Creek plant.
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TVA inspected all its retaining ponds, including the ones at the Widows Creek Fossil Plant, after the rupture in Tennessee. Moulton said on Dec. 31 that the ponds were "all in good shape."
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Ooops! Looks like you need to fire someone!
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TVA had sought no permits and hadn't coordinated with the state environment department about its special operation at the dam, and had not coordinated with Tennessee State Parks or the U.S. Forest Service, Calabrese-Benton said.
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Calabrese-Benton said the sediment had built up behind the dam over decades after flowing down from the Copper Basin, an area in the southeast corner of Tennessee where mining and pollution wiped out vegetation generations ago.
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Think CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS with each political comment about this disaster and the failure of Congress to prevent this environmental destruction --

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Toxic Influence: Coal ash-tainted money funds senators holding TVA disaster hearing
Using the most recent data available from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website (updated with Federal Elections Commission data as of Dec. 8), the Institute for Southern Studies examined campaign contributions from electric utilities to members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in the 2008 elections. We found that the industry gave members of this key committee a total of $1,079,503.
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Another TVA coal waste spill underscores need for federal action
In addition to the disastrous spill of more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge from its Kingston power plant in Eastern Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority is now grappling with another recent spill of coal waste pollution from one of its facilities.
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TVA Coal is Killing Tennessee