Press release from Richard Fireman:
Six Western North Carolina members of the General Assembly, including Sen. Terry Van Duyn, Rep. Susan Fisher, Rep. John Ager, Rep. Brian Turner from Buncombe County, and Rep. Joe Sam Queen, from Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties, and Ray Russell, from Watauga and Ashe counties have called on Chairman Edward Finley of the Commission to hold a public hearing in Asheville on Duke Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan. The plan outlines the energy monopoly’s 15 year forecast on energy planning and is totally inadequate to meet the scientific consensus to reduce greenhouse gases in North Carolina.
The IRP is also not in alignment with Gov. Cooper’s Ex. Order 80 on the State’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emission. The plan will not support the City and County’s objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and by 100% by 2042, both in municipal operations and community wide.
The letter also calls for the Commission to hold an Evidentiary Hearing in Raleigh on the IRP, where expert testimony is presented to the Commission on the wisdom of the monopoly’s planning. The IRP will ensure that Duke continues to build out its centralized natural gas generation, a certain nail in the coffin of accelerating global heating, and a death sentence to future generation of North Carolina residents, while guaranteeing Duke Energy and Duke Energy Progress and its shareholders a profit.
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Hi MX,
Please track down this letter and post. Obviously thanks in advance for reporting on the NCUC / Duke Energy response.
In spite of what folks believe, there’s more to the climate response than ‘100% Renewable Energy’ messaging.
Thank you, Grant, for pointing out that we didn’t originally include the letter. Sorry for the oversight–it’s posted now.
Good to use a medium besides Scrib for government document downloads. The ‘upload’ task needs to be avoided. Google Drive is fine.