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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.

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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.


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