Has TVA Been Stockpiling Lies Along With Toxic Coal Wastes?

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Has TVA Been Stockpiling Lies Along With Toxic Coal Wastes?
By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Saturday December 27, 2008 6:01 pm


This week TVA deliberately dumped massive amounts of toxic corporate waste matter into a shared public resource: America's broadcast media. Why did the PR flacks who ooze around TVA's headquarters give America such generous piles of steaming corporate lies for Christmas? Aside from the fact that's what PR flacks do for a living, the well-paid professional liars on TVA's payroll had an extra-special motive to stuff our Holiday stockings with deceit: TVA failed to construct dikes that actually worked. TVA's professional liars had a bonus motive, as well: two months after the October 2008 annual inspection showed the dike had a "wet spot" indicating a leak, TVA's crack inspectors hadn't finished their formal inspection report. So last Sunday when the dike at TVA's Kingston Plant leaked for the third time in six years, and TVA's toxic wastes clogged the Emory River on their way to the Tennessee River (the Ohio River's largest tributary), TVA was neck deep in apparent liability. For their emergency response, TVA trundled out the usual PR zombies to clog US media with bald-faced lies. So...what will TVA run out of first: toxic corporate PR, or toxic power plant coal waste?

Without knowing how much PR waste (and how many PR zombies) TVA has stockpiled along with their toxic coal wastes, we may never know the answer. If the size of TVA's two Big Lies this week is any indication, the Carbon Lords from the Volunteer State have amassed vast stockpiles of first class Grade A PR sludge. TVA's first Big Lie? TVA simply lied about the volume of the toxic waste spill. TVA's second Big Lie? TVA lied when they claimed the public waterways contaminated with their toxic waste were "safe". Who knows what their PR zombies are concocting for the next Big Lie. At the rate they are going -- and failing -- I wouldn't be surprise if for Big Lie # 3 they tell us what spilled into the river was actually reindeer muck from Santa's stables.

Who could have anticipated yet another leak? Well, we can start with the neighbors.

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1. this is a HUGE story that the media is ho-humming about