Initial Thoughts on TVA Coal Ash Spill
December 30th, 2008 by Renée HoyosAll,
I just returned to San Jose, Costa Rica, from spending time in Monteverde to discover that on Dec. 22, one of the most devastating environmental disasters in Tennessee´s history occurred. I´ve been following the online media from here and I am shocked at what the coverage reveals.
This problem is going to take years to fix. The Network is committed to helping the community get what they need to have clean water and a healthy community. We´ll be in it for the long haul and you can follow it here on our blog site.
More to come.
RvH
December 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Given the abominable way in which the EPA has bowed to the will of President Bush in allowing more and more lax regulations on such an incredibly toxic waste product as fly ash; given that organizations such as the TVA will always take every advantage of such loose regulations and hide behind the weak and ethically unsupportable excuse of “complying with all current regulations”, whether morally acceptable or not; and given that the bottom line in both government and business is money, and nothing else, I can only hope that even now, armies of lawyers are lining up to sue for tremendous sums both the EPA and the TVA for allowing this tragic, but all too predictable situation to develop. Only when the economic penalties of such irresponsible behavior are severe and certain will corporate America and its government puppets fulfill what should be their moral obligations. I say “should be” because to those without any ethics except what increases their wealth, there are no morals, no responsibility to the public, and no respect of the natural world. There is only profit, and only by the threat of removing that profit can change be forced upon them.