New info bolsters need for NC Governor Josh Stein and the legislature to stop the climate- and rate-wrecking corporate polluter from building unneeded power plants Why is a monopoly corporate utility allowed to recruit more and more power-hungry businesses into its territory? And why is it allowed to spend millions …
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Expert Exposes Duke Energy’s Orwellian Claims about Failure-Prone Nuclear Reactors and Mythical Need for Power Plants — NC WARN News Release
NC Governor Josh Stein must stop the giant polluter from – once again – squandering billions on failed nukes, hugely expanding fracked gas and thwarting climate protections War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Darkness is light. And a $36 billion nuclear construction debacle in Georgia proves the next attempt will …
Short Documentary Blasts Duke Energy for Deception and Key Role in Accelerating Climate Crisis — NC WARN News Release
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 …
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 …
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 …
Duke Energy Again Wants to Gamble Billions of Public Dollars and Climate Chaos on Experimental Nuclear Plants — NC WARN News Release
By 2017, Duke Energy had squandered billions of dollars and 13 years failing to license and build experimental nuclear reactors they had insisted would avoid the massive construction failures of the 1970s. Now, Duke is seeking approval of a carbon plan with a different type of experimental reactor – with unfinished design and already-soaring costs – and proposes to build dozens of them in the Carolinas alone.
Should NC’s clean energy future include more nuclear power? Duke Energy thinks so — USA Today Network
Speak out Against More Giant Rate Hikes for Dirty Power — Alert from NC WARN
Do you think you should pay for Duke Energy’s coal ash cleanup and for nuclear plants that will never be built? 150 turned out to say no at a public hearing in Raleigh on Duke Energy-Progress’s nearly 17% residential rate hike request (see news reports here). If you agree with them, come speak out at the Asheville, Snow Hill or Wilmington hearing (details here and here).