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“Duke Hates Solar” Campaign Launched by NC WARN — News Release from NC WARN

July 1, 2014

Today NC WARN began an intensive statewide public and legal campaign to expose Duke Energy’s efforts to stifle North Carolina’s growing solar power industry at both the rooftop and large-scale levels.

Duke Energy Hates Solar — NC WARN TV ad

July 1, 2014

NC WARN’s first hard-hitting, satirical TV ad in a statewide campaign to expose Duke Energy’s green-washing and efforts to destroy North Carolina’s growing solar industry.

July 1, 2014

https://www.ncwarn.org/2014/07/8568/

NC solar project helps renewable energy, but a bigger boost is needed — News & Observer

June 24, 2014

This N&O editorial is consistent with NC WARN’s view: that Duke Energy is not doing enough to promote solar power.

There’s good news for alternative energy and northeastern North Carolina in the announcement that Duke Energy Renewables will build a massive solar energy project in Pasquotank County. But this sunny story also casts a shadow.

A state Senate measure on coal-ash cleanup is improved — News & Observer

June 21, 2014

Gov. Pat McCrory, himself a long-time employee of Duke until his retirement, came up with a plan for regulation and cleanup that was underwhelming.

NC AG: Make Duke Energy pay for coal ash fix — The News & Observer

June 19, 2014

N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper has become the latest Duke Energy critic to urge state lawmakers to spare the public from paying billions of dollars Duke would incur if the legislature forces the power company to fix leaky coal ash lagoons.

91% of NC Voters Say Duke Energy Shareholders Must Pay to Clean Up ALL Coal Ash Dumps — News Release from NC WARN

June 17, 2014

A new poll shows that, overwhelmingly across the political spectrum, North Carolina voters say that Duke Energy shareholders – not customers – should pay to clean up all of the utility’s 33 toxic coal ash dumps, and that those whose negligence caused the disastrous Dan River ash spill deserve to be penalized.

Duke’s Burn-the-Public Coal Ash Bill Being Pushed by NC Senate — News Release from NC WARN

June 16, 2014

Duke Energy’s lobbyists have persuaded North Carolina senate leaders to propose a Burn-the-Public bill that would provide minimal clean-up of the utility’s 33 leaking coal ash dumps, and maximal abuse of electricity customers and those physically impacted by toxic coal ash.

Strong, if flawed, start on coal ash — Charlotte Observer

June 16, 2014

Disposing of a production byproduct is a business expense, and its cost should be borne by the company and its shareholders. The bill requires Duke to pay for its cleanup of the Dan and any future spills, but ratepayers could be on the hook for the much bigger costs of moving the ash.

Duke Energy Agreement To Cover NC Coal Ash Spill Costs Leaves Questions, Clean Water Groups Say — International Business Times

June 11, 2014

John Runkle, an attorney at NC WARN, a Durham, N.C.-based climate advocacy group, said. “We’re very concerned about any plans for the ultimate storage of that [waste],” he said. “We want to make sure that we’re not just passing the problem on.”

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