On Friday, March 21, 2014 9:24:16 PM UTC-4, F*O*A*D wrote:
Duke Energy is in hot water again over coal ash. Earlier this month,

local environmentalists noticed Duke was pumping down coal ash lagoons

at a retired power plant. That triggered an investigation that ended

yesterday, when the state Department of Environment and Natural

Resources announced that Duke had illegally pumped 61 million gallons of

coal ash-tainted wastewater into the Cape Fear River.



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Duke Energy, I've read, is the largest power plant company in the

country, and it has created a large number of serious environmental

disasters, some through accident and carelessness and some, as this

newest one, deliberately.



The company should lose its licenses and the plants taken over by

companies who will have the public's interest in mind. Fining Duke

Energy isn't the answer...it just will pass those fines along to those

who have to buy power from it. It's too bad shareholder liability is so

limited in this country, even when a corporation knowingly does the

wrong thing, as in this latest dump of pollution. Sticking shareholders

with the bill for the cleanup might help, and so would jail time for the

corporate execs.





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