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• Bright & Early: Disaster Tourism Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 477
  Good morning, Nashville. Roane County may be putting the kibosh on the TVA’s plans to build an overlook for passers-by to view the progress on the coal ash cleanup . According to county officials, the TVA never consulted them before developing the viewing area which is supposed to include a parking lot big enough ...
  1 week ago

• Its the end of the recession as we know it. Why dont we feel fine?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Economy , Media The "Great Recession" is over -- at least officially. A recession, by definition, is two consecutive quarters of falling gross domestic product, and recent figures show that the GDP rose 3.5% in the third quarter this year. Phew. So why dont we feel better? For too many of us, it ...
  1 week ago

• Activists Protest Mountaintop Mining at TVA

  
  Chattarati, Chattanooga news and opinion — Authority: 473
  Late Friday afternoon, a small group of environmental activists and citizens—numbering less than two dozen shortly after 5:00 p.m.—gathered outside the Chattanooga offices of the Tennessee Valley Authority to protest mountaintop mining. The protest was organized by United Mountain Defense , a Knoxville-based ...
  1 week ago

• TVA to Purchase More Green Energy

  
  Bird on a Wire — Authority: 427
  TVA, looking outside the region to boost its renewable energy portfolio, said Thursday it will buy 450 megawatts of wind power capacity from the Great Plains. The nations largest public utility has signed 20-year power-purchase agreements with Maryland-based CPV Renewable Energy Co. and Chicago-based Invenergy Wind ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bright & Early: Wash, Rinse, Repeat Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 477
  Good morning, Nashville. The Jefferson Street Freedom Riders mural will be getting yet another coat of paint just two weeks after being repainted to cover up where vandals had whited out all of the black faces. This time around, which is actually the third time someone has defaced the mural since it was finished on ...
  2 weeks ago

• If you like this view....

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 136
  ...youll love the new project TVA is constructing at the site of the massive coal ash spill at a power plant in Tennessee. The agency is building an observation area , according to a story in the Knoxville News-Sentinel.Parking for 20...BYOFM (face mask). Millions of gallons of coal ash spilled on the land and a ...
  2 weeks ago

• TVA turning disaster site into tourist attraction?

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 514
  KNS: TVA building overlook to observe coal-ash cleanup... read more
  2 weeks ago

• TVA Fuel Costs Drop--Electricity Bills Slated to Decline

  
  Bird on a Wire — Authority: 427
  The CA covered this, too, but the Tennessean went into more depth. Electricity bills will decline, thanks to drop in TVA fuel costs By Nicole Young The Tennessee Valley Authority announced Tuesday that its electric rates will drop 1.5 percent on Nov. 1 because of lower costs for fuel, saving customers 50 cents ...
  2 weeks ago

• Happy Hour: United We Stand

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 477
  All in favor of Tennessee seceding from the Union say ‘aye.’ [ City Paper ] Following a recent decrease in electricity bills that took effect October 1, the TVA will be shaving another 1.5% off electricity rates in November. [ WZTV ] If you show up at the Metro Health Department looking for the injected form of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oak Ridge, TN: Developed the Atomic Bomb and Now Stopping Child Predators

  
  IT DAWNED ON ME — Authority: 106
  What was rolling farm land in east Tennessee, the city now known as Oak Ridge was quickly transformed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 to become one of the four places that worked on the Manhattan Project and birthed the atomic bomb. Because of the plentiful and cheap hydroelectric power provided through the ...
  3 weeks ago

• TVAs Coal Ash Dumping Plan Sparks Health Concerns

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 603
  After a dam burst at its Kingston, Tenn., power plant last December and dumped more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge into a nearby community and river, the federal Tennessee Valley Authority decided to change the way it stores its coal waste, transitioning from wet landfills like the one that failed to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Updated EPA aerial photos of TVA coal ash spill disaster site

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 514
  By way of RoaneViews, heres a gallery of some recent EPA aerial photos of the TVA coal ash disaster site. Sort of puts it in perspective. ... read more
  3 weeks ago

• AREVA DZ Teams With TVA On Services

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 531
  Under the terms of the agreement, AREVA DZ, a joint venture between AREVA and Day & Zimmermann, will provide boiling water reactor (BWR) and pressurized water reactor (PWR) refueling services, outage optimization, specialized non-destructive examination services, parts and materials and PWR refueling tool ...
  4 weeks ago

• AREVA DZ Teams With TVA On Services

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 531
  Under the terms of the agreement, AREVA DZ, a joint venture between AREVA and Day & Zimmermann, will provide boiling water reactor (BWR) and pressurized water reactor (PWR) refueling services, outage optimization, specialized non-destructive examination services, parts and materials and PWR refueling tool ...
  4 weeks ago

• Happy Hour: Long Way Down

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 477
  ‘Tis the week for chemical spills, it seems: A Chattanooga wastewater plant employee was seriously burned after around one ton of chlorine leaked inside a containment building. [ WZTV ] The TBI has released a sketch of the woman who is being accused of posing as an immigration enforcement agent, stabbing a woman, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Abolish the TVA

  
  Kayak2U — Authority: 430
  Now the Tennessee Valley Authority is giving away millions of dollars as some sort of recompense for its negligence in the realms of coal ash, and the local politicians are only too happy to grab as much of it as they can. Nearly $43 million will be bestowed upon the cities of Kingston, Harriman, and Rockwood, ...
  7 weeks ago

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