| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/05/21, 8:49 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Obama's scheme to sell off the Tennessee Valley Authority gets push-back from Tennessee Republicans who know the benefits of a publicly-owned facility.
Buried within the fine print of the 2014 Obama budget is a startling bit of history-changing policy. The government, the administration says, should consider selling off the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the nation’s largest publicly operated—that is, “socialist”—institutions, and the largest public power provider in the country.
The TVA is a non-profi, free-standing public authority established by the Roosevelt administration during the Depression—a very large utility, if you like. It provides 165 billion kilowatt hours of power to
9 million Americans, has $11.2 billion in sales revenue, employs more than 12,500 people, and provides other educational, training and related services (such as navigation and land management, flood control, and economic development) to the people in the states and region around the
Tennessee river basin.
Read full story
For the 1960 Elia Kazan film about the TVA click the link
Note: this is not a documentary.
If the ecology and history of dams, especially the large project dams, are of interest to you, you might want to check "Silenced Rivers" by Patrick McCully. He is pretty much in favor of tearing them down. Find out more here
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