Governor McCrory Responds to Reported Crack in Earthen Dam at Duke Energy Facility | Eastern NC Now

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

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( 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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