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Duke’s Massive Rate Hikes Would Reward Rich Data Corporations on the Backs of Families and Businesses – News Release by NC WARN

- November 23rd, 2011

NC WARN calls for denial of annual rate hikes and current 18.6% request that would leave small customers paying twice the rate of energy-hogging data centers.

Speak out against Duke Energy’s 18.6% rate hike

- November 21st, 2011

Not only did Duke Energy get a 7.2% rate hike last month, this is Duke’s fourth rate hike since 2009, and they’re filing for another general rate hike later this year. Unless Duke’s ambitious construction plans are stopped, we expect rate hikes to continue for the next decade.

Raleigh Rate Hearing Flyer
Duke rate hike still has critics –
The Charlotte Observer
Duke Energy gets 7.2% rate increase
in North Carolina – The Charlotte
Business Journal

Will the South be forced to pay for the lessons of Fukushima? – Facing South

- November 17th, 2011

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to approve the design of a new type of nuclear reactor planned for sites across the South without first incorporating the lessons of Fukushima — instead sticking the region’s ratepayers with any bills to correct safety problems revealed by the ongoing analysis of the Japanese disaster.

Utility CEO on Solar: In “3 to 5 Years You’ll Be Able to Get Power Cheaper from the Roof of Your House Than From the Grid” – Climate Progress

- November 13th, 2011

CEO of NRG Energy: The fundamental issue of our day [is] climate change…. The people who were opposed to climate change legislation used one of two tactics. They either said, “Well, we don’t believe it’s happening.” Which, of course, is just a bald-faced lie.

Nuclear Expert Cites New Concerns about Westinghouse Reactor Design Based on Fukushima Disaster – News Release

- November 10th, 2011





Groups say design approval can’t legally be finalized until Fukushima lessons are incorporated, and that NRC plans to shove costly design corrections onto Georgia, South Carolina customers.

See the Fairewinds report

See the legal motion

See the Fairewinds video “Fukushima and the AP1000″

Listen to the audio from the press conference

Rate hike opponents sing out against Duke Energy – The News and Observer

- November 3rd, 2011

Hours before the 7 p.m. hearing, a crowd gathered more than a block away to protest Duke Energy’s proposed rate hike for customers before the N.C. Utilities Commission.

Panel says wild weather worsens – The Associated Press

- November 1st, 2011

Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the Northeast U.S. to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost, says a draft summary of an international climate report obtained by The Associated Press.