I thought this was related to the West Virginia spill.
Duke Energy was Gov McCrory worked for Duke energy for 20 years, $99,000 in restitution seems rather small based on the damage. A Federal Grand Jury has requested the records from Duke Energy.
Quote:
North Carolina regulators’ penchant for seemingly protecting Gov. Pat
McCrory’s (R) former employers from repeated lawsuits over their environmental
practices was only stopped following a devastatingly toxic spill, MSNBC host
Rachel Maddow reported on Monday.
On two prior occasions, Maddow said, officials at the state Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) invoked a provision in the federal
Clean Water Act allowing them to step in as plaintiffs against Duke Energy when
Duke was being sued by environmental activists over the toxic coal ash ponds at
its facilities. The state reached settlements worth a collective $99,000 for
those incidents.
But Monday night, she explained, a third such settlement was delayed in the
wake of a pond spill that produced up to 82,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million
gallons of contaminated water — the third-biggest spill of its’ kind in U.S.
history.
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Rachel Maddow: A disastrous toxic spill broke NC interference for governor’s former firm | The Raw Story
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