Source: Taft Wireback, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 5/24/18



Activists and neighbors of coal ash ponds at two Duke Energy plants are protesting a public meeting held here Wednesday evening by state environmental officials considering a plan to speed the “dewatering” of those ponds. They said that because of an inconvenient location and timing, many neighbors of the Belews Creek Steam Station near Walnut Cove and the retired Buck Steam Station in Rowan County boycotted the 6 p.m. meeting on the Jamestown campus of Guilford Technical Community College.

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