My parents live right behind the Swan Pond Baptist church and they have been appraised and a offer made. Everyone that I know from Brian Mullins to the Rail Road tracks have been appraised even the church. And let me tell you the offers that are being made are very very low! It is important to note here that the TVA approached all these land owners and made the offer they did not approach the TVA. But to say the least the offers have been slaps in the face.

Randy Ellis
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I got the pictures!!! When were these taken? Is the filter still like that? This puts a whole new perspective on the issue for me.

I am going to present this and other outrages at the meeting tomorrow. I do hope that our illustrious TVA officials are present, because they will not like what I say, or how I say it. You see, this is the area that has been discussed for storing the ash. It is the same idea that some of us presented to TVA over a month ago. It seems as though they think it's a gesture of faith to make an offer. But, we do not have any faith in TVA. And, this makes it even worse. Your story is being told all over the nation and in other countries as I am writing this. There are blogs that go world wide carrying it. And, this is just the beginning. Other stories will be posted as soon as they come to us.
Let's face it. TVA has no heart. Oh, they want to be good stewards of the consumer. Hey Mr. Kilgore...how about being a good steward of PEOPLE. Or do you even realize there is a difference. You take a time when people are sick, disheartened, and feel hopeless then spit in their faces. One thing you forgot to realize. You are screwing around with families with generations of history to this area. And you are messing with good, honest, hard working people. So if you think you only had a small movement, think again. It just got a lot bigger....nation wide!

The properties bought for those prices are ones that TVA hopes to turn around and sell a few years down the road. You see, researching all of their actions in other places shows the same pattern. They will try to "reclaim" the most expensive properties and try to make a profit. In the past, this hasn't worked out too well for them. Some of their deals are still being investigated.
Their imaginary line, or red and green zone, or whatever they want to call it next, changes as they see fit. Wonder what they will use next? Maybe if the sun shines in your back yard from noon til 3, they buy you out at a good price? Who knows?

are you also aware that they "move" graveyards?

They have in the past I think during the time they were building dams... but when I looked at some of the info..... next to some names it stated "not moved"....

I wonder what is going to happen to the graveyard on Swan Pond Road.....

Now they are devaluing the property in their appraisals. Let's see. TVA appraisers come in and appraise your land. Then want to pay 25% above the devalued price even though it was their fault it has been devalued. That 25% doesn't even put the price back to the land's original worth before the disaster. And, it isn't land they can try to turn a profit on later down the road.

People in this area need to band together and get away from TVA Coal Electricity. People need to convert everything in their homes to narural gas. If you have high cellings, put in solar panels. Farmer Leaf has all the information on how to do that. Farmer Leaf is the only one on here who knows what he is doing. My future home will have natural gas and solar panels in it. When I get ready for a new home, I will take some lessons from him. Even my daughter and her husband are looking into converting totally to natural gas and solar panels. She wants to do composting and grow organic foods. I am sooooo proud that she wants to do this.

I know that some people still think that the coal fire plants are going to be around for a long time. God may have something to say about that. The Myan Indians have in their records that December 21, 2012, something big and life changing will happen all over the world. The earth is changing its axis slowly to make the poles melt. It is looking like the Myan Indians could be right. Things will have to change on this earth, because we have polluted it to the point of causing everyone on this earth to be sick. We are producing more and more autistic children, having more and more respiratory problems, adhd is on the rise, cancer is on the rise and especially in the Oak Ridge/Knoxville/Kingston area, alsheimers disease is on the rise, etc. We are killing our own people because we want to have an easy life with the electricity produced by the TVA Coal fire Plant. How sad we all are. The only one that can change all this is GOD and he is staring us in the face right now with what he is about to do possibly in 2012.

We have turned off the televisions to my grandchildren and cut off the X-boxes and now they are playing outside, using no electricity. They are having a blast. They play card games with us and we interact more with each other.

TVA needs to GO AWAY SOME DAY. The community needs to take the bonuses back from Tom Kilgore and his engineer friends and their companies, and the TVA board and spread it among the community to help make up for what they have done to devalue the area. I would love to see this happen.

I love your way of life. I want to bring my daughter to your farm. Who else lives like you do around here. This way of living should be taught in our schools. The only problem is that it would not put money in the pockets of todays politicians and Coal Mining and Coal Fire Plant Exec. Farmer Leaf, I do believe that those people don't like people like you.

We have heard from someone "in the know", that people are actually deciding to stay in their homes at the spill site and not sell out to TVA? Has anyone else heard this? I can't imagine taking a chance on your life and staying there for any amount of money. I'm not judging anyone, but rather I'm really concerned. Some of these people have children and grandchildren. I would never take a chance on my children's health by bringing them up around that stuff. I know people have sentimental and emotional connections to their homes, but this is their health and lives we are talking about. TVA is trying to say there are no health risks, but TVA is out for TVA! Blessings to all involved.

Farmer, some people don't want to sign any papers, because part of the take it or leave it deal is that the residents cannot come back any time in the future and claim anything to do with health issues. Then, that would leave them out of meeting the criteria for the contracted medical group, even if they got sick a week after selling their property. But, if it is safe as TVA has said over and over, then why have that waiver in the sales contract? ve Then, they have to sign a paper declaring that TVA was not negligent.

RB, I said they plan to sell because of their past history. They have done the same thing before. We find this information when we do hours of research. And yes, they are being investigated on some of their previous land deals.

I did mean to flag Marie. But, as it turns out, we all benftited from my mistake. Your post was one that needed to be read.
On a different subject; I wrote a paper in college about the Indian Removal Act. It was entitled "Germany had Hitler, We had President Jackson". I got an A, lol.

it's ashamed people has to move because of something like this,this is there home,some has watched there children grow there,and now all they have are memories,something that could have been prevented .

found a site with some pictures of the ash spill if some hasn't seen how bad it really is ,just thought you all would like to see. it also has a blog for anyone who would like to share there thoughts,i checked it out it pretty neat.

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