Here's a podcast from NPR's All Things Considered with a conversation between Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Tom Kilgore, CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Kilgore is the guy ultimately responsible for the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee.
Answering why he had not committed to restoring two coves in the Emory river that are covered with coal ash from the spill, he said
Kilgore: I didn't wanna make a promise on that particular one until I know what the best options are for the environment and for the neighbors.
Boxer: But at this time you have no plans on the books to restore those coves the way the were before, is my point.
Kilgore: But I also don't have plans not to, madam chair.
Boxer: Well, that's not an answer.
Kilgore: Okay.
If you listen to the podcast, you won't fail to notice Kilgore's thick southern accent. It must be how I am influenced by the context and the media (and I put all blame there, of course), but doesn't it make him sound like a crook?
Here's my humble advice: Just get the thing cleaned up, goddammit.
- Home
- Angry by Choice
- Catalogue of Organisms
- Chinleana
- Doc Madhattan
- Games with Words
- Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
- History of Geology
- Moss Plants and More
- Pleiotropy
- Plektix
- RRResearch
- Skeptic Wonder
- The Culture of Chemistry
- The Curious Wavefunction
- The Phytophactor
- The View from a Microbiologist
- Variety of Life
Field of Science
-
-
Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements Still Don't Work, New Study Says1 week ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
-
-
-
-
The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site1 year ago in Catalogue of Organisms
-
The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site1 year ago in Variety of Life
-
-
Does mathematics carry human biases?3 years ago in PLEKTIX
-
-
-
-
A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China5 years ago in Chinleana
-
Posted: July 22, 2018 at 03:03PM5 years ago in Field Notes
-
Bryophyte Herbarium Survey6 years ago in Moss Plants and More
-
Harnessing innate immunity to cure HIV7 years ago in Rule of 6ix
-
WE MOVED!7 years ago in Games with Words
-
-
-
-
post doc job opportunity on ribosome biochemistry!9 years ago in Protein Evolution and Other Musings
-
Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez9 years ago in The View from a Microbiologist
-
Blogging Microbes- Communicating Microbiology to Netizens9 years ago in Memoirs of a Defective Brain
-
-
-
The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl11 years ago in Sex, Genes & Evolution
-
-
Lab Rat Moving House12 years ago in Life of a Lab Rat
-
Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs12 years ago in Disease Prone
-
-
Slideshow of NASA's Stardust-NExT Mission Comet Tempel 1 Flyby13 years ago in The Large Picture Blog
-
in The Biology Files
No comments:
Post a Comment
Markup Key:
- <b>bold</b> = bold
- <i>italic</i> = italic
- <a href="http://www.fieldofscience.com/">FoS</a> = FoS