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Overseeing The TVA Accident

By Kleinheider Posted on December 31, 2008 at 2:23 pm

The U.S. Senate will give the spill a look-see:

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on which Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander serves, will hold a hearing Jan. 8 about the coal-ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant.

The committee has oversight of TVA.

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2 Responses to “Overseeing The TVA Accident”

  1. HillbillyBill writes
    December 31st, 2008 3:41 pm

    Look see won’t get it. The pending suit is justified. Property owner’s land is definately greately reduced in value, if not totally.

  2. Ernest Norsworthy writes
    December 31st, 2008 6:16 pm

    My comments to the Nashville Post 12/31/08

    A clash of Titans between the TVA federal government and, well, the other federal government finally could be the measure of the strength of each. So far, at least for the last 75 years, TVA has held the political clout advantage whether the administration was Democrat or Republican.

    Their “man in Washington” (shades of Atlas Shrugged) has been the one to help thwart legislation unfavorable to the TVA. A logical question to ask might be is why does the federal government-South even need an advocate in Washington; same government, right?

    I have for the past several years called for investigations, inditements and resignations of key TVA operatives for their massive negligent acts. TVA commits so many gross management errors they are difficult to keep track of.

    The “ash slide” as TVA puts it could be TVA’s last billion dollar mistake, that is if the people will be heard at the senate hearing next week. There are numerous agendas but none showing up so far for non-agenda Americans.

    I’ve written a lot about the TVA and specific points of negligence by TVA management, its board (which cannot muster its nine part-time members; petty partisan bickering has prevented approval of a full complement of members) and a general focus of the TVA on production and production bonuses at the expense of safety and proper maintenance. The Kingston dam break is an example.

    See http://norsworthyopinion.com for further information.

    Ernest Norsworthy
    emnorsworthy@earthlink.net
    http://norsworthyopinion.com

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