Governor McCrory Responds to Reported Crack in Earthen Dam at Duke Energy Facility

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Governor McCrory Responds to Reported Crack in Earthen Dam at Duke Energy Facility

Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage ( More Entries )

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News Release:

    Raleigh, NC      Following a report from Duke Energy filed late today that a crack has formed in an earthen dam that's part of a coal ash impoundment at the Cape Fear Steam Electric Station in Chatham County, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement:

    "This is the latest in a series of troubling incidents at Duke Energy facilities over the past few months, and it's time for Duke Energy to come out of the shadows and to publicly address this growing problem," said Governor McCrory. "Initial reports show that the dam does not appear to be in imminent danger of failure. We are going to continue to enforce the law and take appropriate action to address this situation. We need an explanation from Duke Energy as soon as possible – not only to us, but to the people of North Carolina."

    Staff members from the Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources are on site to determine the cause of the crack and to determine whether the crack is a threat to the integrity of the dam and what can be done to fix the crack. For more information, please contact the Communications Office for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources at (919) 268-0069 or (919) 707-8602.

    Contact: Crystal Feldman
       govpress@nc.gov

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John Latham said:

( March 24th, 2014 @ 6:38 am )

We know the explanation for Duke: maintaining and inspecting old pools that no longer service plants is expensive and time consuming. A company's primary interest is it's bottom line, and unfortunately that may have trumped safety. If Duke had maintained and inspected their properties, they could have caught these cracks and leaks before they became an environmental disaster. Also to blame is our legislature before Gov. McCrory was ever elected. The NC Department of Environment and Natural resources has been continually reduced in ability since 2009. The real litmus test for McCrory now is whether or not he will succumb to his conflict of interest as a Duke shareholder and allow Duke to raise prices to recover the financial losses resulting from the leaks and fines. Will McCrory choose profit over people? Will he try to strengthen our weak DENR, or allow it to limp along and continue to be incapable of preventing a future disaster like this? I voted for McCrory because I was sick of the crony thievery the Democratic party at the state level was involved in. I hope, I hope, I hope that our Governor has the integrity to take Duke to task for these appalling failures to maintain it's holding ponds. The company is solely responsible for that, whether they are inspected by another agency or not. They dumped poison in our water, and they need to rectify that. If it costs Duke's shareholders their investments, then that's too bad, when a business fails, it's shareholders lose. That's capitalism.

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