Leading scientist urges NC Gov. Josh Stein to treat climate change as emergency, “use all the levers” to get Duke Energy off fossil fuels Today NC WARN released an 18-minute documentary that goes right at one of the world’s worst climate polluters and features a globally prominent scientist insisting that …
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Since the early 1990s, NC WARN has watch-dogged the state’s nuclear power industry over its “low-level” and high-level waste practices, along with reactor safety and security issues.
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Duke Energy Plans to Gamble Tens of Billions of Public Dollars and our Climate Future on Failure-prone, Experimental Reactors — NC WARN News Release
National nuclear “relapse” filled with corporate deception, taxpayer subsidies and abuse of monopoly customers; Duke officials quietly cite risk of more failures 65 times Despite cancelling 18 past reactors prior to completion, thus wasting billions of customer dollars, and while quietly loading a regulatory filing with 65 cautions of complexities …
In Statewide Ads, Top Climatologist Again Calls for Duke Energy to Stop Expanding Fossil Fuels — NC WARN News Release
NC WARN says Gov. Stein should be pushing the giant NC-based polluter A globally prominent climate scientist is again speaking out against Duke Energy’s accelerating and massive expansion of fossil fuels and its suppression of renewable power. NC WARN has launched statewide ads asking why Governor Josh Stein isn’t pushing …
Duke Energy Doubles Down on Climate Destruction and Soaring Power Bills — Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren
Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren: Duke Energy’s newly filed resource plan continues the horrible record of one of the world’s worst climate polluters. Duke proposes to greatly increase methane gas for power and experimental nuclear plants while extending its burning of coal for at least 15 years. The plan slashes projections …
Will NC Politicians Help Duke Energy Gamble our Power Bills and Safety on Experimental Nuclear Plants? — NC WARN News Release
NC SB 266 would shield Duke from risk – after the corporation failed 19 times building reactors NC WARN’s attorney and activists worked with Southeastern allies to help block over two dozen experimental Westinghouse reactors in the 2010s. Corner-cutting, deception and corporate arrogance were keys to the billions of dollars …
Duke Energy Has Failed 19 Times Building Nuclear Plants — NC WARN News Release
63% failure rate has wasted billions; now Duke wants customers and taxpayers stuck with even more risk for mythical reactors Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren: A new analysis by NC WARN shows that Duke Energy and its subsidiaries cancelled 18 of the nuclear reactors they tried to build between …
The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy — Op-Ed from The New York Times
Ignoring NuScale blunder, Duke Energy set to squander hundreds of millions on non-existent small nuclear technology — News Release from EWG
By Alex Formuzis, Environmental Working Group Unfazed by the termination of NuScale Power’s multimillion-dollar wasteful Utah small nuclear reactor, or SMR, project in early November, Duke Energy is pushing ahead with a plan to waste potentially even more pursuing the nonexistent technology in North Carolina. Duke is in discussions with NuScale about …
Duke Energy’s Plan for New Nukes Collapses – NC WARN Open Letter to Gov. Cooper
The two-page letter below is about the burgeoning failure of Duke Energy’s nuclear pipe dream, Gov. Cooper’s criticism and NC’s broken regulatory process. ————————- November 20, 2023 Honorable Roy A. Cooper Governor of North Carolina Subject: Your criticism of Duke Energy’s plans for dozens of experimental nuclear reactors was validated …
NC WARN Commends Governor for Expanding Criticism of Duke Energy and its Deceptive Gamble on “Hydrogen-Capable” Natural Gas — NC WARN News Release
Group presses Cooper to counter pro-Duke regulators, prevent yet another billion-dollar blunder by the nation’s largest climate-polluting utility Watchdog nonprofit NC WARN today thanked NC Gov. Roy Cooper in an open letter for expanding his recent criticism of Duke Energy’s plans to gamble the state’s climate and economic future on …