Month: October 2012

The wrong panic list

Recent publications on gas drilling have used a scare tactic to frighten citizens about gas drilling, again. “Fracking” has become a buzzword for gas drilling. It is a special technique to coax gas from deep wells in rock layers 3000 to 8000 feet b…

Duke Energy closes 1923 coal-fueled plant in Moncure

As announced in July, Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, on October 1, officially retired two coal-fired power plants, including the utility’s first coal-fueled facility built in 1923. The utility closed the Cape Fear power plant, …