Wed
Feb 17 2010
09:26 am

We're about in the middle for Tennessee, not that this is a good thing. I do question some of the stats. See what you think..
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Thanks to R. Neal for the tip

I still wish

I still wish they would find an accurate way to go back to 1957 and do a study on cancer and respiratory problems. We have always blamed this on Oak Ridge. I feel that there is another study that should be conducted. And that study should be done to see how these problems have risen since the Kingston Fossil Fuel Plant came on line.

I totally agree with you

I totally agree with you Rick. I think that the DOE sites have been blamed for a lot of the sickness in the surrounding area. I used to blame them for all of it. Never did I realize how dangerous it was to live near the environment of a coal ash plant. I remember when I first moved to the lake with my parents in the Tri-County Sportsman Club about 50 years ago. My dad would get really sick and said he would get hay fever when he was at our place on the lake. He would tell us that he suffered terribly when we stayed there for the summer. Our place on the lake was just a summer home, and we would move back to our winter home in Oliver Springs for the fall, winter, and spring months. My dad delivered the mail and was always out and about on his mail route. He would only get sick when we moved to the lake for the summer. He always said that there was something wrong down there in that area, but he didn't know what.

Dad sold his place in the Tri-County Sportsman Club after owning it for about 11 years because he said he was tired of being sick when he was there. After he and my mom quit going down there, he was not sick with what he called hay fever any more. He is 87 years old now and is in better health than I am. Thank goodness he got away from spending his summers near the Kingston coal fire plant. I wish that I had been smart enough to move away a long time ago.

The world needs to know how dangerous it is to live near the coal fire plants. Anyone with any common sense can put two and two together to see that the burnt coal ash blowing in the air will cause respiratory problems and could cause problems that lead to cancer, liver shut-down, and other organ shut-down, because of the over taxing of the body with toxins from the burnt coal ash. When the body becomes over laden with toxins from being breathed in every day, the organs can't work as they are suppose to and start shutting down. It can even cause heart attacks and death. I have a doctor here in Franklin, TN, who told me that moving away from the Kingston Coal Fire Plant was the best thing that I could have done for myself. After a year of being away from there, I totally agree with him.

I really believe that an orgainzation in that area should get funding for testing for porphyrin disease. It is such a rare disease, that it would cause a stir if it was found that there was a high percentage of it in the area. If it shows a high percentage of the disease in the Roane County area, then testing could be done around other coal fire plants. I think that people from the area should write to the president as I have done, and explain about the porphyria disease in that area. Twenty percent of 50 people tested from that area January of 2009 were found to have the symptoms of the Porphyria Disease which is suppose to be totally rare. The disease is caused from living in a toxic environment. It becomes hereditary and is passed on to the children. That is really sad, because it restricts the child to staying completely out of the sun. The skin becomes so sensitive to toxins that even the sun rays hurt the skin. How sad is it to pass this type of thing on down to our children and grandchildren.

The coal fire plants need to be shut down and the ash removed and buried in the ground far away from people. Other ways of making electricity has to be better than filling our air and lakes with toxic coal ash.

I hope that when you get better, you can check into going through an organization of some sort and get a study done on the effects on peoples health from living near a Coal Fire Plant. It would be an amazing study for someone to do.

Past discussions

RoaneViews has previous discussions on health care in Roane County, both with open questions.

"Over 80%" of Roane Residents Are "Medically Disenfranchised" - (link...)

Children with cancer in our area - (link...)

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