Massive Coal Sludge Spill Devastates Tennessee Town

Treehugger:

An environmental disaster of epic proportions just happened in Tennessee. Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a 40-acre holding pond at TVA's Kingston coal-fired power plant covering 400 acres up to six feet deep, damaging 12 homes and wrecking a train.

According to the EPA the cleanup will take at least several weeks, but could take years. Officials also said that the magnitude of this spill is such that the entire area could be declared a federal superfund site.

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Comments

[Uosdwis]

Anybody else getting a Clean Coal "ad by Google", just below a huge, dirty, coal disaster story? Pretty ironic, huh?

[HeevenSteven]

Clean Coal, comming to your town soon!

[tbone99]

Coming ON your town soon.

[wadenelson1]

Readers: Click on the main link and watch the video. The area flooded with this good is unbelievably large. A 5 minute helicopter ride and still going when I got tired of watching.

[AnalyzeIT]

Can't be proven by me - But this is, (certainly) NO accident. Or if by chance it is - it was one waiting to happen.....

[sixx]

Tenn. Sen. Corker, “Once you start down that path, what industry is it that we do not deal with?"

Corker not talking about COAL, you betcha.

[Stilts9]

I'm sure nobody "in charge" saw this coming.

[FreedomAgain]

Was this a last minute executive order by Bush, or a natural disaster? Maybe the republicans de-regulated this as well.

[ajax2]

Put a Corker on it. Oh you did already.

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

Where's your "clean coal" now?