Four weeks after the nation’s worst environmental disaster, the Obama administration saw no need to accept offers of state-ofthe-art… Source: washingtonpost, June 15, 2010;
Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help. Source: chron, June 9, 2010;
Two Dutch organisations – Deltares, an expertise centre for delta technology located in Delft and Rotterdam-based dredging company Van Oord – have together come up with an innovative concept to combat the oil spill threatening the US’s southern coast. Their proposals consist of a set of radical measures that will do more to limit the [...]
Nearly a year and a half after the devastating TVA ash spill, we have a closer look at the cleanup beside the coal-fired power plant in… Source: wate, May 7, 2010;
KINGSTON, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority’s top executive says changing the way waste is stored at its power plants should reduce the risk of another disastrous coal ash spill like the one that tarnished a riverside community a year ago. But he isn’t offering any guarantees… Source: Associated Press, December 19, 2009
The disastrous coal ash spill that occurred a year ago at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee dumped a whopping 2.66 million pounds of 10 toxic pollutants into the nearby Emory and Clinch rivers — more than all the surface-water discharges from all U.S. power plants in 2007. Source:southernstudies,dec 9,2009;
