The Public’s Reaction to NC’s Proposed Settlement with Duke Energy: NNNNNO!

You can read The Charlotte Observer article, but the upshot is that the public strongly denounced the state’s proposed “do-nothing” settlement. Almost 5,000 people submitted comments, almost all saying that the settlement doesn’t go far enough to ensuring our water is safe from coal ash waste.

So basically, the public reaction’s was….

And I can only imagine that Duke Energy’s is…

Watch this space for more to come. After all, the state has now filed an injunction for all coal-fired power plants in the state.

About Sandra Diaz

With Colombian roots, a Philadelphia, Pa.-childhood, and more than a decade in Florida before joining Appalachian Voices, Sandra served as AV's North Carolina campaign coordinator and driving force behind the Red, White & Water campaign from 2007 to 2013.