After Coal Ash Spill - NC Officials discover Duke purposfully dumped 61 million gallons in 2nd River
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Crypt
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Posted 4:54 pm, 03/21/2014
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The Rebublicans will blame this on my little brown biting donkey and when they're through fracking a clean drink of water might cost more than a therm of natural gas.
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Hot Mess
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Posted 4:33 pm, 03/21/2014
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They need to be fined a lot more than $25,000 **** thats nothing to them sons of *****es. 
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Eat At Moes
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Posted 2:10 pm, 03/21/2014
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Not only has Duke Energy been caught in the act, but the chief regulator has postponed any necessary clean-up action by Duke for 20 days. Normally they would immediately be hit with a 25K per day fine until they stop dumping and clean it up. This is highly irregular, and I believe actually unprecedented. The regulator has no legal reason to softball this issue with Duke.
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river otter
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Posted 2:04 pm, 03/21/2014
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Maybe Pope Puppet Pat will include the fine for this spill in Duke's $99k fine for all of their other messes.
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Eat At Moes
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Posted 11:06 am, 03/21/2014
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AG Roy Cooper will make sure the state sues the pants off Duke, regardless of their man in the Governor's Mansion.
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Quackquack
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Posted 10:34 am, 03/21/2014
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It is unbelievable what Duke can get away with.
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moving101
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Posted 9:59 am, 03/21/2014
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And they probably did it knowing that they had someone in the govenor's mansion that would have their back. 
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Clean it up
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Posted 9:55 am, 03/21/2014
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They have to get rid of it somewhere 
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Eat at Moes
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Posted 9:31 am, 03/21/2014
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014....html?_r=0
Duke Energy, the electric utility whose massive spill of toxic coal ash into a river six weeks ago is part of a federal investigation, illegally pumped as much as 61 million gallons of coal-ash wastewater into a second river from September to last week, North Carolina regulators charged on Thursday.
Both the accidental spill and the deliberate releases occurred not far upstream from municipal drinking-water intakes. A spokeswoman for the water resources division, Susan Massengale, noted that Duke had spent 31 days emptying 17.4 million gallons of water from one ash pond and 78 days releasing 44.4 million more from a second.
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