Source: John Marks, NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/26/19


Duke Energy is appealing the order requiring the Charlotte-based company to excavate coal ash from nine basins, including its Allen Steam Station on Lake Wylie. Duke says the ash can be capped in place safely, which would cost less time and money. “We do not want our customers and communities burdened with billions in additional costs and decades of disruption when the science shows no equivalent environmental or public health benefit to excavating these sites,” said Duke’s North Carolina president Stephen De May.

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