Environment

On December 22, 2008 the largest coal fly ash disaster in the world occurred in Roane County, Tennessee along the banks of the Emory River at the Kingston Electric Coal Plant which is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat

* Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling

* How the West’s Energy Boom Could Threaten Water

* Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies?

*Read The Whole Story

Thursday December 17, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Rd, Rochester

FREE and open to the public.

The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over climate data continues to unfold.

This calculated progressive increase of food waste suggests that the US obesity epidemic may have been the result of a "push effect" of increased food availability and marketing with Americans being unable to match their food intake with the increased supply of cheap, readily available food.

Potentially every resident who lives above the Marcellus Shale could see and/or experience the industrial-looking drilling sites from their own front (or back) door.

The mountaintops of the Appalachia region, from Tennessee up to the heart of West Virginia, are being ravaged by the coal industry — an industry that cares little about the welfare of communities or the land that it is chewing up and spitting out with its grotesque mining operations.

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