Environmentalists today called on the NC Utilities Commission to stop construction of Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal-fired power plant, saying several factors – individually – eliminate the need for the plant, and that 2007 state legislation requires the Commission to revoke permission to build it.
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New Legal Challenge Seeks to Stop Duke Power Plant — New Release from NC WARN
Environmentalists today called on the NC Utilities Commission to stop construction of Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal-fired power plant, saying several factors – individually – eliminate the need for the plant, and that 2007 state legislation requires the Commission to revoke permission to build it.
Video – CBS 60 Minutes: Coal Power vs. Climate Protection
CEO Jim Rogers answers to James Hansen…
FERC Head: No Need to Build new U.S. Coal or Nuclear Plants – Greenwire
By NOELLE STRAUB AND PETER BEHR, Greenwire http://www.greenwire.com No new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United States, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today. “We may not need any, ever,” Jon Wellinghoff told reporters at a U.S. Energy Association forum. The FERC …
44 Arrested Protesting Cliffside – Announcement from NC WARN
Yesterday’s Call to Conscience rally and march to Duke Energy headquarters was another powerful step toward clean energy and climate protection.
“Clean Coal” Lie Challenged – ABC News
Watch this video on ABCnews.com
Black, Brown & Green Alliance in Durham – Indy Weekly
With the world awakening to economic and environmental crises, a newly emerging Black Brown and Green Alliance in Durham is organizing to seize the strategic moment to blaze a sustainable and just economic path.
2009: Three Mile Island Much Worse Than Reported – Institute for Southern Studies
“What happened at TMI was a whole lot worse than what has been reported, hundreds of times worse.”
NC WARN Wins Round vs. Duke, Cliffside – The News and Observer
Duke Univ. Economist: Modest Increases in Efficiency, Renewables in NC Will Allow Closure of Coal-Fired Plants
The Duke University economics chairman emeritus argues that modest increases in efficiency and renewable power can allow North Carolina to retire coal-fired power plants instead of building new plants. See his study for NC WARN.