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http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters/story/748525.html
N&O
October 25, 2007
Walk the energy
talk --- Letter to Editor
While pointing to a hopeful trend, your Oct. 7 article
"State, cities act on climate" made a critically important omission. You
explained correctly that "Duke Energy's president was among the corporate
executives who stepped forward in January and called for immediate federal
action to address climate change."
Surprisingly, you failed to mention that while Jim Rogers has repeatedly
been lauded on the national stage for talking about slowing greenhouse
pollution, his actions at home are in blatant contradiction:
Rogers is trying to build a large coal-fired power plant at Cliffside,
N.C. -- with no means to capture CO2.
Moreover, he insists -- as during testimony before the N.C. Utilities
Commission -- that the Cliffside plants (he wanted to build two) should be
exempt from the very carbon regulations he's promoting nationally.
If Cliffside ever opens, with its 6 million tons of annual CO2
emissions, it will negate much, if not all, of the carbon reduction efforts
being made statewide.
Quite simply, pursuing new power plants -- coal and nuclear -- is
squandering both the time and resources needed to cut greenhouse gases.
North Carolinians should urge Rogers to walk his talk. We sure need the
leadership.
Jim Warren
Executive Director,
N.C. Waste Awareness & Reduction Network
Durham
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