TVA's fumbling co$ts YOU money!

beternUOld Faithful

McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, a firm retained by TVA to examine the Kingston Steam Plant's catastrophic release of ash into the Emory River, has issued its report:

http://www.tva.gov/kingston/bo..._kingston_report.pdf

The report chronicles a perfect storm of diluted and diffused accountability functions within TVA, internal failure to communicate, failure to set necessary priorities, and in general a fumbling, stumbling, grotesquely misbegotten caricature of how a public governmental organization ought to look after the public's business. In more than one place, the report cites the frequent reorganizations within TVA as contributors to this bureaucratic imbroglio.

The cost of this archly-stupid mismanagement is estimated to be about ONE BILLION RATEPAYER DOLLARS! Your utility bill, in other words, will increase in order to pay for the incompetence of TVA. Ah, well, it ain't the first time.

7/24/0910:36 AM

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XYZHall of Famer

A lot of good folks work at TVA, but in general the accountability is not there. Why worry about doing it right.....do it wrong, figure out what is wrong, and then fix it right....and get paid to do all 3 and maybe get a raise in the meanwhile.

7/24/0911:06 AM

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midknightriderHall of Famer

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Originally posted by beternU:
The report chronicles a perfect storm of diluted and diffused accountability functions within TVA, internal failure to communicate, failure to set necessary priorities, and in general a fumbling, stumbling, grotesquely misbegotten caricature of how a public governmental organization ought to look after the public's business. In more than one place, the report cites the frequent reorganizations within TVA as contributors to this bureaucratic imbroglio.

And this is the same government that's gonna reform healthcare...alrighty then.

7/24/0911:43 AM

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kusineddyEverybody Knows My Name

there is another aspect nobody has even acknowledged, there are hundreds maybe even a couple thousand people who are unemploted because of this. this has sucked the money out of every project in the valley, so it is being paid for by many more people than reported

7/24/0912:02 PM

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beternUOld Faithful

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Originally posted by midknightrider:
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Originally posted by beternU:
The report chronicles a perfect storm of diluted and diffused accountability functions within TVA, internal failure to communicate, failure to set necessary priorities, and in general a fumbling, stumbling, grotesquely misbegotten caricature of how a public governmental organization ought to look after the public's business. In more than one place, the report cites the frequent reorganizations within TVA as contributors to this bureaucratic imbroglio.

And this is the same government that's gonna reform healthcare...alrighty then.

Not quite ole son.

TVA, when it was created and as it remains today, is invested with a great deal of independence and autonomy that are not typical of the rest of the federal government. TVA has often abused this independence by doing things its own way when "its own way" was decidedly not the best, not economically wise, and not the safest way to carry out its business. The Kingston ash spill debacle is a perfect example of that in many ways.

7/24/092:21 PM

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