Duke Should Make Cliffside Carbon Neutral from Day One
(Raleigh, NC – January 29, 2008) The North Carolina Division of Air Quality today issued a permit for Duke Energy to build a coal-fired power plant outside of Charlotte. The following statement about the Cliffside facility may be attributed to Jane Preyer, director of the North Carolina office of Environmental Defense:
“This permit sends Duke back to the drawing board to reduce carbon emissions. The days of conventional coal are numbered. Cliffside can be carbon neutral the day it starts producing power. The state should push Duke Energy to aim for that date, not 2018.”
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