Comments on: America’s Top 10 Worst Man Made Environmental Disasters http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:35:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Coal Ash Spill: Tenn. coal ash spill among worst man-made environmental disasters | Beasley Allen http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-9200 Coal Ash Spill: Tenn. coal ash spill among worst man-made environmental disasters | Beasley Allen Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:17:42 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4039#comment-9200 [...] Last year, when a coal ash impoundment pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) fossil fuel plant in east Tennessee breached, sending a wave of toxic material on to a neighboring rural community, the event made headlines worldwide as one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. It also landed in the No. 1 spot on EarthFirst.com’s “America’s Top 10 Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters”. [...] [...] Last year, when a coal ash impoundment pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) fossil fuel plant in east Tennessee breached, sending a wave of toxic material on to a neighboring rural community, the event made headlines worldwide as one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. It also landed in the No. 1 spot on EarthFirst.com’s “America’s Top 10 Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters”. [...]

]]> By: Dave http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-8465 Dave Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:03:34 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4039#comment-8465 As allways there are many sides to a story. The Exxon Valdez catastrophy is exactly that. Exxon as a Corporate Enity it is tried to react responsibly to this disaster the best it could with the response teams it had in place. Good Corporation maybe? I think when realize that this same corporation allowed a drunk skipper, who by the way was a known drunk who had relasped into the bottle, to skipper a super tanker and allow it to be grounded and punctured on a reef in the Prince William Sound. This Corporate act has been allowed to be forgiven by the US Supreme Court. We Currently have a catasrophic economic tragedy being blamed on the banking world and the mortgage industry, I believe that the mortgage and banking machine has been broken for a long time but the machine was still functioning until the price of oil went soooo high, Exxon and all of big oil were makiong billions and controlling as they do today the price of oil. This is what has broken our economy. I for one, will hopefully collect a stipend of the loss I suffered in 1989 till 1991 when my boat sank due to the domino effect of the oil spill. I was too broke to buy Hull Coverage on my boat and it was a total loss. But in october I will recieve a small check covering 1/10th of my loss from the EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL. 20 years to reover 1/10th of actual loss. Thanks big oil and our Justice System. Feel sorry for big oil no. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" that is exactly what I am doing to live I am over 60 years old no retirement, no job, 1/10th (maybe) of the oil spill money. Life is good right? As allways there are many sides to a story. The Exxon Valdez catastrophy is exactly that. Exxon as a Corporate Enity it is tried to react responsibly to this disaster the best it could with the response teams it had in place. Good Corporation maybe? I think when realize that this same corporation allowed a drunk skipper, who by the way was a known drunk who had relasped into the bottle, to skipper a super tanker and allow it to be grounded and punctured on a reef in the Prince William Sound. This Corporate act has been allowed to be forgiven by the US Supreme Court.

We Currently have a catasrophic economic tragedy being blamed on the banking world and the mortgage industry, I believe that the mortgage and banking machine has been broken for a long time but the machine was still functioning until the price of oil went soooo high, Exxon and all of big oil were makiong billions and controlling as they do today the price of oil. This is what has broken our economy.

I for one, will hopefully collect a stipend of the loss I suffered in 1989 till 1991 when my boat sank due to the domino effect of the oil spill. I was too broke to buy Hull Coverage on my boat and it was a total loss. But in october I will recieve a small check covering 1/10th of my loss from the EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL.
20 years to reover 1/10th of actual loss. Thanks big oil and our Justice System.

Feel sorry for big oil no. “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” that is exactly what I am doing to live I am over 60 years old no retirement, no job, 1/10th (maybe) of the oil spill money. Life is good right?

]]> By: Vanessa http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-7302 Vanessa Sun, 17 May 2009 01:44:39 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4039#comment-7302 I THINK THAT THIS WORLD IS CRUEL AND THAT IT NEEDS A REMINDER OF WHAT MONSTERS HUMANS ARE TO RUIN THE ENVIROMENT AND ANIMALS!!! I THINK THAT THIS WORLD IS CRUEL AND THAT IT NEEDS A REMINDER OF WHAT MONSTERS HUMANS ARE TO RUIN THE ENVIROMENT AND ANIMALS!!!

]]> By: Leslie Irvine http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-7131 Leslie Irvine Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:29:12 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4039#comment-7131 Thank you for an excellent post. Readers might be interested to know about a book I’ve written, titled Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters (Temple University Press). I address the Exxon Valdez spill, among others. It’s coming out in May. Any bookstore can order it if it isn’t on the shelves. You can also order it through Amazon or from the publisher. Here’s the publisher’s link for info on the book: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1977_reg.html For info on me: http://socsci.colorado.edu/SOC/People/Faculty/irvine.html Thank you for an excellent post. Readers might be interested to know about a book I’ve written, titled Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters (Temple University Press). I address the Exxon Valdez spill, among others. It’s coming out in May. Any bookstore can order it if it isn’t on the shelves. You can also order it through Amazon or from the publisher.
Here’s the publisher’s link for info on the book:
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1977_reg.html
For info on me:
http://socsci.colorado.edu/SOC/People/Faculty/irvine.html

]]> By: Nell http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-7127 Nell Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:14:34 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4039#comment-7127 The dust bowl of the 30? The dust bowl of the 30?

]]> By: Rob Young http://earthfirst.com/americas-top-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-7119 Rob Young Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:35:32 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4039#comment-7119 The Valdez oil spill was a tragic accident that the company deeply regrets. As an employee who joined the company post the spill I can attest to the fact that the incident is one that it is never far away from our thoughts even today some 20 years latter. In saying that it still remains disappointing that articles like these contain inaccuracies about our response to the spill and the long term impact on Prince William Sound. It is important to note that the company took immediate responsibility for the spill, cleaned it up, and voluntarily compensated those who claimed direct damages. ExxonMobil paid $300 million immediately and voluntarily to more than 11,000 Alaskans and businesses affected by the Valdez spill. In addition, the company paid $2.2 billion on the cleanup of Prince William Sound, staying with the cleanup from 1989 to 1992, when the State of Alaska and the U.S. Coast Guard declared the cleanup complete. ExxonMobil also has paid $1 billion in settlements with the state and federal governments. Virtually all Valdez compensatory — actual — damages were paid in full within one year of the accident. Since the spill ExxonMobil has contracted independent scientists with impeccable credentials who are among the world's leading experts in their fields to study and report on all pertinent environmental aspects related to the effect of the Valdez oil spill. These scientists have concluded that the environment in the Sound is healthy, robust and thriving and the level of recovery conforms to the established record of recovery documented by the scientific community following many other oil spills around the world - many of them much larger than the one that took place in 1989.To date these scientists have published approximately 400 peer-reviewed papers relating to all aspects of the Prince William Sound environment. The Valdez oil spill was a tragic accident that the company deeply regrets. As an employee who joined the company post the spill I can attest to the fact that the incident is one that it is never far away from our thoughts even today some 20 years latter. In saying that it still remains disappointing that articles like these contain inaccuracies about our response to the spill and the long term impact on Prince William Sound.
It is important to note that the company took immediate responsibility for the spill, cleaned it up, and voluntarily compensated those who claimed direct damages. ExxonMobil paid $300 million immediately and voluntarily to more than 11,000 Alaskans and businesses affected by the Valdez spill. In addition, the company paid $2.2 billion on the cleanup of Prince William Sound, staying with the cleanup from 1989 to 1992, when the State of Alaska and the U.S. Coast Guard declared the cleanup complete. ExxonMobil also has paid $1 billion in settlements with the state and federal governments. Virtually all Valdez compensatory — actual — damages were paid in full within one year of the accident.
Since the spill ExxonMobil has contracted independent scientists with impeccable credentials who are among the world’s leading experts in their fields to study and report on all pertinent environmental aspects related to the effect of the Valdez oil spill. These scientists have concluded that the environment in the Sound is healthy, robust and thriving and the level of recovery conforms to the established record of recovery documented by the scientific community following many other oil spills around the world – many of them much larger than the one that took place in 1989.To date these scientists have published approximately 400 peer-reviewed papers relating to all aspects of the Prince William Sound environment.

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