HYDRILLA and The ANS Task Force, TVA Denies Responsibility to Control Aquatic Nuisance Species

Hydrilla has the potential of "choking off" bodies of water. Cover is necessary for a healthy fishery. Unfortunately hydrilla becomes the only plant present sub-surface, becoming so thick fish and other aquatic species can't exist.

Hydrilla, sounds like Godzilla, it is a monster aquatic plant, choking off waterways and lakes. This aquatic plant has the possibilities of utterly destroying a body of water. It is extremely invasive and almost impossible to kill. It is a serious problem in TVA's lakes.
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The ANS, don't you love it when government creates an alphabet agency. Alabama has just formed the Alabama Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, http://www.outdooralabama.com/education/generalinfo/ans/plan/AlANSPlan200812.pdf . A plan which involves the control and elimination of hydrilla and many other foreign nuisance species of flora and fauna on land and water. Will the newly formed agency do their job, do they have the funding?

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TVA has recently stated they will no longer control hydrilla around private and commercial areas on Guntersville Lake. http://www.tva.gov/news/releases/octdec08/aquatic_plant.htm In their plan they state: " TVA continues to look for ways to minimize the impact of rising energy costs on ratepayers. One of the ways that has been identified is to discontinue certain aquatic plant management activities that support private interests." TVA's Enviromental Stewardship guru's specialty is nuclear physics, Ms. Anda Ray http://www.tva.gov/news/bios/ray.htm . She is a pro nuclear bureaucrat who seems to care not for the rivers environment. Meanwhile the "TVA crystal palace bureaucracy" and inept management grows. (TVA Debt: http://arklite.blogspot.com/2008/07/close-look-at-tva-debt-by-experts.html and http://arklite.blogspot.com/2008/11/tva-nuclear-energy-socialist-triad.html ) TVA's Executives #1 priority is their tunnel vision style nuclear business plan and receiving pay bonuses at rate payer expense, not lake stewardship. In the TVA Act lake stewardship is on an equal footing with electric power production. Greed seems to be overcoming better judgement on the part of the TVA Board and Executives. The TVA apparently sees their stewardship role as an unnecessary financial burden. (TVA Executives and Board Members external relationships with competition, politics, banks, debt, etc. http://arklite.blogspot.com/2008/05/know-your-tva-leadership-common.html )

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Links to Aquatic Nuisance Species Documents:

http://www.outdooralabama.com/education/generalinfo/ans/plan/AlANSPlan200812.pdf

http://anstaskforce.gov/Documents/nanpca90.pdf the law.

http://www.anstaskforce.gov/spoc/hydrilla.php the plant and the problem.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/management/FluridoneStrategies.html fluridone

http://www.tva.gov/rrsc/readingroom/aquaplantrec.htm TVA Policy

http://www.tva.gov/rrsc/rrsc_members.htm TVA Resource Council

Know Your TVA Leadership, Common Relationships

Know your TVA leadership, who are they and what are their current and past connections? It was not difficult to establish financial/corporate relationships with senior TVA leadership. There are common factors. I entered the following search parameters on Yahoo, as most of the Executive Leadership had worked for these companies: Entergy, Duke Power, Southern Co., Exelon; this is the result http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power_2010_Program You might say ok sounds like Nu-Start, how true. Here is where the connection merges with TVA Executive Leadership as the current Executive Leadership of the TVA were the Executive Leadership of the private sector Nu-Start Corporations, check 'em out http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/leadership.htm , Tom Kilgore: CEO TVA, former CEO Progress Ventures-Nustart partner; William "Bill" McCollum, Jr.: Chief Operating Officer TVA, former Chief Regulated Generation Officer, Group Executive Officer Duke Energy-Nustart Partner; Kenneth Breeden: Executive V.P. TVA Customer Relations, Entergy Senior V.P Marketing-Nustart Partner; William Campbell: TVA Chief Nuclear Officer, Executive V.P., Entergy Senior V.P. and Chief Operating Officer-Nustart Partner; Kimberly Greene: TVA Chief Financial Officer, Executive V.P. of Finacial Svcs., Southern Co. Treasurer-Nustart Partner; Emily Reynolds, TVA Senior V.P. Government and Valley Relations, Republican Party Political Operative, 31st Secretary of the Senate, Special Assistant Sen. Howard Baker, Jr., Tennessee State Director U.S. Senator Bill Frist; Preston Swafford, TVA Executive V.P. Fossil Power Group, Exelon Senior V.P. Energy Delivery-Nustart Partner.

TVA Board of Director relationships http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/board/members.htm Banking-Venture Capital: Dennis Bottoroff, Am South, Council Ventures; Don Dupriest, unnamed venture capital; Mike Duncan, Community Holding Co., Inez Deposit Bank; Tom Gilliand, United Community Bank. Political relationships: Mike Duncan, Chairman Republican National Committee; Skila Harris, Democrat appointed, Department of Energy, White House Staff; Don Depriest, Mississippi Republican Fund Raiser.

Common relationships group summary: TVA Board of Directors-Banking, Venture Capital, Political Operative; TVA Executive Leadership-Nustart Energy Partners; Common relationships between Board and Executives, Political Operatives.