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This story was published in partnership with Grist. In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River in eastern Tennessee. Picture an industrialized fleet modeled after Huck Finn’s raft: Nicknamed Adelyn, Kylee, and Shirley, the blue, flat-bottomed boats used mechanical arms called cutterheads to dig up riverbeds and siphon the […] Search for:
The Daily Yonder This story was published in partnership with Grist. In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River in eastern Tennessee. Picture an industrialized fleet modeled after Huck Finn’s raft: Nicknamed Adelyn, Kylee, and Shirley, the blue, flat-bottomed boats used mechanical arms called cutterheads to dig up riverbeds and siphon the excavated sediment into shoreline canals. The largest dredge, a two-story behemoth called the Sandpiper, had pipes wide enough to swallow a push lawnmower. Smaller dredges like Thacker’s scuttled behind it, scooping up excess mu...
Body found in river; man arrested Oakridger A deputy with the Roane County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a suspect for the murder of a man found dead in the Emory River in Harriman. Roane Conty Sheriff Jack Stockton gave details in a phone interview. He said a fisherman found the body of 37-year-old Arron Brown the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 9. Brown was found lying face down in the Emory River some time before 9 a.m. Stockton said a fisherman was launching his boat from a boat ramp when he found the body. Stockton said his office is investigating it as a homicide. One man, Casey Lee Ri...
and if you've never heard of them, you're in for a big surprise, because the reserves are so vast that they'll help solve america's energy needs for the next century. [ticking] >> if you were waiting for the day global warming would change the world, that day is here. it's happening far from civilization's notice in a place about as remote as you can get. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. we live on an increasingly endangered planet, from the glaciers of antarctica to the rich prairie lands of canada. and the ultimate disaster may be financial as well as environmenta...
and if you've never heard of them, you're in for a big surprise, because the reserves are so vast that they'll help solve america's energy needs for the next century. [ticking] >> if you were waiting for the day global warming would change the world, that day is here. it's happening far from civilization's notice in a place about as remote as you can get. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. we live on an increasingly endangered planet, from the glaciers of antarctica to the rich prairie lands of canada. and the ultimate disaster may be financial as well as environmenta...