Duke Energy is the nation’s worst polluting utility – and it’s pursuing a giant expansion of fracking gas power plants, pipelines and mergers.
Three prominent experts are urging the Utilities Commission to reject Duke’s plans for a huge gas-fired plant in Asheville.
… because it is not needed, would be high-risk for all Duke customers, and would accelerate the global climate crisis at the worst possible time.
Those problems are amplified by a rigged review process – created by Duke Energy’s legislative cronies and bent in its favor by the Commission.
Duke doesn’t have to answer NC WARN’s experts or face cross-examination. And it’s hiding crucial data from critics.
Duke hasn’t even validated its key argument for the plant – that power usage will suddenly begin growing rapidly. Nor explained why it needs new plants instead of using the glut of power supply across the region.
Dr. Robert Howarth of Cornell warns that methane leaking throughout the natural gas industry makes gas-fired power plants “a disastrous strategy” for climate change.
But Duke execs keep pushing their business model: build plants, raise rates, and control state government.
Attorney General Roy Cooper must use his policing authority to reign in this corporate abuse.
Jim Warren
Executive Director
NC WARN
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