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Comment: Uranium Mining and milling will produce large uranium tailings ponds, larger than TVA sludge pond disaster! Will this be Danville and Pittsylvania County, VA future? A hurricane or huge rains storms will cause the uranium tailing ponds to overflow or dam breaks which will go into the Bannister River, which runs into Lake Gaston, which is Virginia Beach, VA drinking water. This will become a national security problem because of the Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard drink the water from the lake! In addition, people will not move to our area with future uranium mining and milling because people want to live in nice clean areas not areas with future radiation problems! Demand the Virginia leaders to Ban Uranium mining and stop listening to the French and Canadians’ Nukes whose agenda is to take all the profits back to their country! Don't forget, according to several articles that France built the bunkers in Iraq, would not fight with us in Iraq therefore French fries was renamed Freedom Fries!
September 15, 2009
By SHAILA DEWAN
The Tennessee Valley Authority said Monday that it would spend $43 million on economic development projects in Roane County, Tenn., the site of a huge coal ash spill at one of the authority’s power plants last December.
The spill devastated property values, brought tourism virtually to a halt and diverted the stream of retirees who were supposed to be settling down on Watts Bar Lake.
The money will be spent on projects that do not directly relate to the spill, but local officials hope the work will help offset the international news coverage that made Roane County synonymous with acres of toxic sludge.
“That bell has been rung and you can’t unring it,” said Mayor Troy Beets of Kingston, one of the towns most affected by the spill. “We can’t unring the fact that we had the ash spill on Dec. 22; we can’t unring all the negative publicity that came out about it. You try to ring some more bells, just as loudly, that are positive.”
On Monday, Mr. Beets, who is also chairman of the county commission, was elected to lead the newly formed foundation that will dole out the money. The foundation board includes the county executive, two other mayors and four Tennessee Valley Authority executives.
The county and towns have compiled lists of priorities that include more than $30 million for capital improvements to the county school system, a public relations campaign and projects like a new sewage treatment plant and the conversion of an old movie theater into an arts education center.
The announcement came after months of negotiations between the authority and local officials. The authority has allotted $10 million a year for the four years it will take to clean up the spill, said Barbara Martocci, a T.V.A. spokeswoman.
Some local residents said the money was a step in the right direction.
“We’re going out on the lake five miles from the ash spill, and it doesn’t look like anything happened,” said Bob Giltnane, owner of a real estate company that specializes in the lakefront property that has lost so much value since the spill. “But people are reading the news 2,000 miles away, and they think we’re drowning in ash. That’s where we’re hurt.”
Mr. Giltnane favors building recreational improvements, like a marina.
But Brant Williams, a Kingston councilman, questioned why the authority would have such a large presence on the foundation board and called the money a “small down payment.”
“We’ve gotten billions of dollars in negative press,” Mr. Williams said, “and I can’t see how $40 million is even going to begin to overcome that.”
Half a billion gallons of mucky coal ash, which can include toxic substances like arsenic and mercury, were spilled over about 300 acres of Roane County, most of it owned by the authority, and into nearby rivers when a retaining wall at the Kingston Fossil Plant gave way on Dec. 22.
The authority has estimated that the cleanup will cost $1.2 billion, including the $43 million, Ms. Martocci said. The authority has also spent $40.2 billion to buy out 142 property owners, she said.
But many homeowners are dissatisfied, saying that they have not been reimbursed for the decline in their property values and that the claims process has been arbitrary and unfair. Several lawsuits are under way.
“It’s a joke,” said Sarah McCoin, who lives on her family’s nearby farm, referring to the economic development money. “It’s another way that T.V.A. is going to project a positive image while so many of us are in really, really bad shape, and T.V.A. has totally ignored that they’ve destroyed our community.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/us/15ash.html?ref=us
Comment: Uranium Mining and milling will produce large uranium tailings ponds, larger than TVA sludge pond disaster! Will this be Danville and Pittsylvania County, VA future? A hurricane or huge rains storms will cause the uranium tailing ponds to overflow or dam breaks which will go into the Bannister River, which runs into Lake Gaston, which is Virginia Beach, VA drinking water. This will become a national security problem because of the Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard drink the water from the lake! In addition, people will not move to our area with future uranium mining and milling because people want to live in nice clean areas not areas with future radiation problems! Demand the Virginia leaders to Ban Uranium mining and stop listening to the French and Canadians’ Nukes whose agenda is to take all the profits back to their country! Don't forget, according to several articles that France built the bunkers in Iraq, would not fight with us in Iraq therefore French fries was renamed Freedom Fries!
September 15, 2009
By SHAILA DEWAN
The Tennessee Valley Authority said Monday that it would spend $43 million on economic development projects in Roane County, Tenn., the site of a huge coal ash spill at one of the authority’s power plants last December.
The spill devastated property values, brought tourism virtually to a halt and diverted the stream of retirees who were supposed to be settling down on Watts Bar Lake.
The money will be spent on projects that do not directly relate to the spill, but local officials hope the work will help offset the international news coverage that made Roane County synonymous with acres of toxic sludge.
“That bell has been rung and you can’t unring it,” said Mayor Troy Beets of Kingston, one of the towns most affected by the spill. “We can’t unring the fact that we had the ash spill on Dec. 22; we can’t unring all the negative publicity that came out about it. You try to ring some more bells, just as loudly, that are positive.”
On Monday, Mr. Beets, who is also chairman of the county commission, was elected to lead the newly formed foundation that will dole out the money. The foundation board includes the county executive, two other mayors and four Tennessee Valley Authority executives.
The county and towns have compiled lists of priorities that include more than $30 million for capital improvements to the county school system, a public relations campaign and projects like a new sewage treatment plant and the conversion of an old movie theater into an arts education center.
The announcement came after months of negotiations between the authority and local officials. The authority has allotted $10 million a year for the four years it will take to clean up the spill, said Barbara Martocci, a T.V.A. spokeswoman.
Some local residents said the money was a step in the right direction.
“We’re going out on the lake five miles from the ash spill, and it doesn’t look like anything happened,” said Bob Giltnane, owner of a real estate company that specializes in the lakefront property that has lost so much value since the spill. “But people are reading the news 2,000 miles away, and they think we’re drowning in ash. That’s where we’re hurt.”
Mr. Giltnane favors building recreational improvements, like a marina.
But Brant Williams, a Kingston councilman, questioned why the authority would have such a large presence on the foundation board and called the money a “small down payment.”
“We’ve gotten billions of dollars in negative press,” Mr. Williams said, “and I can’t see how $40 million is even going to begin to overcome that.”
Half a billion gallons of mucky coal ash, which can include toxic substances like arsenic and mercury, were spilled over about 300 acres of Roane County, most of it owned by the authority, and into nearby rivers when a retaining wall at the Kingston Fossil Plant gave way on Dec. 22.
The authority has estimated that the cleanup will cost $1.2 billion, including the $43 million, Ms. Martocci said. The authority has also spent $40.2 billion to buy out 142 property owners, she said.
But many homeowners are dissatisfied, saying that they have not been reimbursed for the decline in their property values and that the claims process has been arbitrary and unfair. Several lawsuits are under way.
“It’s a joke,” said Sarah McCoin, who lives on her family’s nearby farm, referring to the economic development money. “It’s another way that T.V.A. is going to project a positive image while so many of us are in really, really bad shape, and T.V.A. has totally ignored that they’ve destroyed our community.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/us/15ash.html?ref=us
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