KFTC Members Arrested at Coal Burning Power Plant Protest in NC | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

KFTC Members Arrested at Coal Burning Power Plant Protest in NC

Posted by: Kevin Pentz on April 19, 2009 at 08:00pm

KFTC Member Being Arrested
KFTC member, Mickey McCoy, being arrested at the Duke Energy proposed Cliffside coal burning power plant demonstration in Charlotte, North Carolina, 4/20/09. Photo by Melanie Smit

Groups in North Carolina (see stopcliffside.org) that planned the protest invited organizations working on stopping mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia because North Carolina burns the second most mountaintop removal coal in the country behind Georgia. We are thankful to the groups planning the protest for helping to make the connection between mountaintop removal coal mining and global warming.

"In my first 50 years, I laid back and I thought you could write letters to congressmen and I thought you could write letters to your state legislators and get things done, well I've done that, and in my next 50 years, I'm going to take action, action is what it's all about," said KFTC member Mickey McCoy of Martin County.

Representatives from Duke Energy claim that this new coal burning  plant will allow an older and dirtier plant to shut down. Even if the new coal burner produces less SoX and NoX, and less mercury, there are still no plans to reduce the CO2 emissions. And it's really rate payers across the country who should be demanding energy companies move away from coal because as soon as carbon cap legislation is passed on the federal level, the price of electricity from coal will skyrocket. This is not a transitional fuel, this is a step backwards.

Anyway, you can read all about the protest and even watch KFTC members being put in handcuffs by referencing the media stories below.

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Issue Area(s): 
Coal and Water
New Energy and Transition

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