Duke Energy said North Carolina’s coal-ash order would add more than $4 billion to the original $5.6 billion estimate for cleanup at its plants
The dried bed of a coal ash pond on the grounds of Duke Energy's closed coal-burning plant along the Dan River in Eden, N.C. Photo: Matt Bell/The Register & Bee/Associated Press By Valerie Bauerlein April 1, 2019 4:56 p.m. ET RALEIGH, N.C.—State regulators told Duke Energy Corp. on Monday that it must completely remove coal ash from all storage basins in the state, rejecting the company’s proposal to cover some ponds and leave that ash in place.
Duke said Monday’s order would add decades and more than $4 billion to the original $5.6 billion estimate for cleanup at its plants. Duke is in the process of gradually retiring its coal plants. Some of the coal-ash basins are at plants that have already closed. Light gray fluids flowed out of a flooded coal ash dump toward the Cape Fear River at Duke Energy's L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C., after floodwaters from Hurricane Florence breached a dam at the plant's reservoir on Sept. 22, 2018. Photo: N.C.
Environmentalists cheered Monday’s decision, saying it was important to move coal ash far from sources of drinking water. Coal plants have traditionally been built near lakes and rivers, with storage on site.
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