EDITORIAL: Clink, clink, clink

Today's Crossville Chronicle Editorial says it all.

Go to:

http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/opinion/local_story_169153942.html?keyword=secondarystory

Eleven County Commissioners Support CCP Project

On the evening of June 15th, the Cumberland County Commission voted 11-5 to approve a proposal by Smith Mountain Solutions, to haul Coal Combustion Product (coal ash) and dump it in what will be a Subtitle "D" landfill on property currently owned by Crossville Coal Company on Smith Mountain Road.

The people of Cumberland County and especially the families living on Smith Mountain Road seem to have been viewed as so much collateral damage by those Commissioners that supported this proposal.

The Commissioners supporting this project were:

Commissioner Tollett; David Gibson, 4th District; Jack Davis and Trey Kerley, 5th District; Wendell Wilson and Terry Carter, 6th District; Harvel and Kenneth Carey, 7th District; Jeff Brown and Greg Maxwell, 8th District; and Cramer.

NO to Coal Ash

Over 2000 Cumberland County registered VOTERS have signed petitions against the county becoming a dump for TVA coal ash (or any other material).  

Are you listening Commissioners?  The operative word is:  voters.

Kingston Coal Ash Leaving By Rail

TVA CEO Tom Kilgore reported to the TVA Board this morning, June 4, that TVA has contracted for construction of a new rail spur at Kingston Fossil Plant to be used for ash loading.

Now that the coal ash will be shipped out by rail, there is no need for the County Commission to approve the Smith Mountain Solutions, LLC request.

(Unless coal ash isn't really what the landfill will be developed for.)