Freedumb! Duke CEO At Annual Meeting Hails "Year Of Accomplishment" For Company

[hatrack]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As hundreds of protestors chanted and banged drums outside the annual Duke Energy shareholder meeting, inside CEO Lynn Good greeted shareholders by telling them, “It’s been a year of accomplishment for Duke Energy.”

In the first meeting since a 39,000 ton spill of coal ash into the Dan River, Ms. Good repeated a claim she has made before - that water in the Dan River has returned to normal.

The demonstrators outside chanted and held up signs showing their displeasure with Duke Energy during a Thursday morning protest. They made sure that shareholders had to walk by them on their way to their meeting so they could get some of the message.

"This was a dangerous time for our democracy when we can see the pollution in our water. We know that things have gone way too far," said James Browning of Common Cause.

EDIT

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Dukes-board-to-hear-shareholders-concerns-257537441.html

[ladjf]

1. Duke is a prime polluter. nt

[marions ghost]

2. Thank You Protestors!

Around 200 demonstrators showed up and were motivated by Duke’s coal ash spill in the Dan River; Donna Lisenby of the Waterkeepers Alliance told the crowd that some things are more important than the bottom line.

"They are polluting our waterways with toxic arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, selenium, and thallium, rat poison thallium, that is so toxic it's not even legal to put in rat poison anymore," she said.

The Waterkeepers Association, Sierra Club, Environmental Justice Network and NAACP were just a few of the groups represented.

[MisterP]

3. "fly ash is fine in moderate amounts: carbon ... is carbon" *smirk*