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Duke Energy is in hot water again over coal ash. Earlier this month,
local environmentalists noticed Duke was pumping down coal ash lagoons at a retired power plant. That triggered an investigation that ended yesterday, when the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources announced that Duke had illegally pumped 61 million gallons of coal ash-tainted wastewater into the Cape Fear River. - - - Duke Energy, I've read, is the largest power plant company in the country, and it has created a large number of serious environmental disasters, some through accident and carelessness and some, as this newest one, deliberately. The company should lose its licenses and the plants taken over by companies who will have the public's interest in mind. Fining Duke Energy isn't the answer...it just will pass those fines along to those who have to buy power from it. It's too bad shareholder liability is so limited in this country, even when a corporation knowingly does the wrong thing, as in this latest dump of pollution. Sticking shareholders with the bill for the cleanup might help, and so would jail time for the corporate execs. -- Rand Paul & Ted Cruz…your 2016 GOP nominees, because ‘Mericans deserve crazy! |
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