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https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/breaking-news-federal-charges-filed-against-duke-energy-on-coal-ash-violatiThis afternoon federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Duke Energy for illegal coal ash discharges in North Carolina.
SELC Senior Attorney Frank Holleman released the following statement in response to this news:
Today, Duke Energy has admitted that it committed environmental crimes in its coal ash storage across North Carolina. We informed Duke Energy and DENR of these violations of the Clean Water Act in 2013, yet Duke Energys polluting coal ash storage has yet to be cleaned up and has now resulted in criminal prosecutions. Duke Energy cannot buy its way out of its coal ash scandal, it has to clean its way out. Duke Energy and its executives must show the people of North Carolina that they are sorry for these crimes by moving the dangerous and polluting coal ash to safe, dry, lined storage away from our rivers and drinking water supplies.
SELC represents the following citizens groups in court to clean up Duke Energys coal ash pollution from all 14 leaking Duke Energy sites across North Carolina: Appalachian Voices, Cape Fear Riverwatch, Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Dan River Basin Association, MountainTrue, Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, Roanoke River Basin Association, Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Waterkeeper Alliance, Winyah Rivers Foundation, and Yadkin Riverkeeper
marym625
(17,997 posts)I hope they actually have to pay. Seriously pay.
Bastidges!
dballance
(5,756 posts)Corporations keep just getting fines for their misdeeds. Well, someone in management made the decisions that led to those misdeeds. They need to be prosecuted.
I would say that purposely poisoning people should carry a hefty charge. Corporations are people, so let's hold the people who make the decisions responsible. In China they execute them. I wouldn't go that far...
Cha
(297,240 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)For an artificial person, we have an artificial guillotine: a paper shredder.
Simply feed the corporate charter into the guillotine. Then pull the shredded paper out of basket and shake it before the bloodthirsty throngs, cheering the death of the tyrant.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)since I am one.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Those places marked on the map aren't too far north of where I live. Between that and the nuclear power plant down east, I'm sitting pretty! lol
Ramses
(721 posts)The CEO of Duke Energy is a real asshole of a human being. Hope he gets personally charged with criminal conspiracy
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)was a longtime Duke Energy employee, so I expect this action will be passed to the ratepayers, such as I, and this will be a slap on the wrist. I am not saying he is responsible, because he was essentially a PR flack (Charlotte mayor is a part-time position), but he should have recused himself from anything to do with this case, and he hasn't.
Prediction: current Transportation Sec. Anthony Foxx will be Governor in 2016 defeating Pat McCrory.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Are people tired of McCrory's shit yet? Somehow, I don't think so. But maybe the Dems in this state can get their act together and give us some decent people to vote for. In my county, they didn't even run anybody against the sheriff, who's been under investigations of one sort or another for years.
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)as Mayors, but statewide it's possible if McCrory continues the R pattern of governance. If Pat would govern NC like he did here, there is nobody in the state that could beat him. The problem is that he is too weak to stand up to the extreme elements statewide. He was not this wacky here, but then again, political extremes of either persuasion don't hold water in Mecklenburg County.
malaise
(269,004 posts)Throw away the keys