Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by.
we got this new video a couple days ago of duke energy s disastrous coal ash spill last year. the people you see taking samples from the spill are water keepers. they turned over to federal prosecutors this video that they took and also the results of their sampling in that river during the spill. well, last week, the federal case about the spill wrapped up and so now we can see that evidence, too. we could see what federal investigators got to see. in that federal case, duke energy pled guilty nine times. the company agreed to pay $102 million fine, which is the largest criminal fine in north carolina history. so duke s coal ash spill was a crime. duke pled guilty. but ever since that spill, one central question has been whether the state government of north carolina itself was in some way criminally involved. north carolina s governor, pat mcquarry spent 28 years working at duke energy before he went
in usa today and in the wall street journal. what duke is apologizing for is having spilled nearly 40,000 tons of toxic coal ash into north carolina s dan river last year. can you get out a sample? i can try. he just asked us to move. do you have a go ahead. all right. let s go. we got this new video a couple days ago of duke energy s disastrous coal ash spill last year. the people you see taking samples from the spill are water