Updates: TVA coal spill, massive environmental disaster

picture-8_0-sm1 From the desk of the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition, here is a compilation of recent stuff on the huge TVA coal ash spill in Eastern Tennessee:
http://energyjustice.net/Ohio/TVA-Special-1-8-09.pdf

Initial coverage, on the ground voices, resources, and action opportunities.

There is also a wealth of info at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and some really solid journalism and photos at AlterNet.

3 Responses to “Updates: TVA coal spill, massive environmental disaster”

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1 Christine Jan 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

Thank you, Mattie! I so appreciate the time you put into this!
2 danawv Jan 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

This is nice but you’re going to have to update it again for the SECOND SLUDGE SPILLhttp://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/01/09/tva-strikes-again-second-coal-ash-spill-in-alabama/!

One more annoying thing from TVA.

1 UFO Octopus Destroys Windturbine « It’s Getting Hot In Here Trackback on Jan 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

About Mattie

Mattie is a member of the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition's Steering Committee, an organization he founded at Power Shift 07. He is proud to support a growing statewide network of student groups working for a clean, safe, and just future for all. Mattie originally got involved as a Syracuse University student who saw a pressing need for climate action, later as an Energy Justice Network intern who began to realize the human impacts of coal, and finally as an OSEC organizer committed to building an economy and climate worth fighting for. He also has a degree in women's studies and sociology, is a founding member of the Mountain Justice Spring Break Planning Collective and an intentional community in Columbus, and is the convener of the Energy Action Coalition's Anti-Oppression working group.