As Paris negotiators seek to avert irreversible global climate disruption, the nation’s largest carbon-polluting utility has been steaming full-speed backward with a climate- and economy-wrecking plan to greatly expand the burning and piping of fracked and conventional natural gas. Today NC WARN and The Climate Times openly pressed Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good to slow down, to weigh the evolving science and economics of natural gas, and to realize that she must share such critical decision-making with the people of North Carolina.
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Carole W. Troxler: Duke’s warning — The News & Observer
This is no light matter for Duke Energy, which may explain its willingness to play Goliath with NC WARN’s David. The “people power” group urges efficiency and clean energy. It pushes Duke to generate renewable energy and scoffs at the company’s projection of 4 percent solar power within 15 years.
We at NC WARN sincerely appreciate Carole Troxler sharing her words, and in a variety of papers across the state.
NC WARN wants regulators to hear oral arguments in solar-power dispute — Charlotte Business Journal
Letters to the future: Will we finally tackle climate change? — INDY Week
NC WARN is honored to be among the voices in this special issue of INDY Week. Letters to the Future is a national project involving more than 40 alternative weeklies across the United States in which authors, artists, scientists and others draft letters to future generations of their own families, predicting the success or failure of the Paris climate talks—and the future that followed.
Church fights Duke Energy for 3rd party solar energy — ABC 11
At Faith Community Church, there’s a sense that they’re living the story of David and Goliath because the small church in Greensboro is going up against Duke Energy. “We’re doing it for a lot of reasons,” said Rev. Nelson Johnson, pastor at Faith Community Church. “I thought it would be a wonderful thing to get a lower cost of energy and reduce the carbon footprint, and thereby be consistent as good stewards of the Earth.”
NAACP, Allies Call on Governor to Get Ahead of Job Losses in Coal-power Communities — News Release from NC WARN
An alliance of social justice, labor and environmental groups today called on Governor Pat McCrory to plan ahead for the inevitable closure of coal-fired power plants by appointing a “green ribbon panel” to help coal plant employees and their communities transition to the growing sector of green energy jobs.
Church-Solar Test Case Draws Broad Support — News Release from NC WARN
Duke Energy seeks massive penalty against NC WARN, but the Christian Coalition and other faith and conservation groups join the state and national solar industry to seek an end to monopoly control of rooftop.
Church Fights Duke Energy for 3rd Party Solar — ABC 11 News [includes video]