Received this today: Advocates with the Waterkeeper Alliance say pictures they released Monday of workers for Duke Energy pumping water from a coal ash pond into a stream that feeds the Cape Fear River shows the company violating state and federal clean water rules.1 - WRAL Unbelievable. More questions and reports are still continuing to surface regarding Duke Energy’s poor handling of their more than 30 dangerous coal ash ponds across our state. We need your help to tell our state leaders to make Duke clean these toxic lagoons up. Tell Governor Pat McCrory, Speaker Thom Tillis, and Senate President Phil Berger that Duke Energy should pay for the clean-up of all North Carolina’s dangerous ponds, not ratepayers: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/CoalAshRatePayers Even more outrageous, last year Duke Energy successfully lobbied the state legislature and Governor McCrory to pass a law that would weaken state rules around contaminated groundwater from coal ash ponds. The Associated Press explains: “Documents and interviews collected by The Associated Press show how Dukes lobbyists prodded Republican legislators to tuck a 330-word provision in a regulatory reform bill running nearly 60 single-spaced pages. Though the bill never once mentions coal ash, the change allowed Duke to avoid any costly cleanup of contaminated groundwater leaching from its unlined dumps toward rivers, lakes and the drinking wells of nearby homeowners.”2 Don’t be silent on this issue! Send your message today: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/CoalAshRatePayers Thanks, Brittany Iery NC Conservation Network
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:20:31 +0000
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