Say NO to Fracked Gas Plant at Duke University

There was a public hearing last night (Mar 27) at Duke for community stakeholders to weigh in on Duke's plan to partner with Duke Energy to build a new power plant on campus. It is called a CHP plant (Combined Heat & Power) and will run on fracked gas.

 Not many people at this last minute hearing. Duke has an alliance with nearby neighborhoods, but I guess they *forgot* to alert them about this to avoid negative press. Most of the affected community in Durham has no idea that Duke has plans to pollute our neighborhoods with toxic fracked gas emissions.

Please check the talking points at NC Warn.  and contact Duke immediately. 
There is an advisory subcommittee that is making recommendations on Friday, Mar 31.
Here is where you can submit comments:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJ7LnzcRXsVrHSofYWjH09WkvJOcqUGespOzdxhHsc3-yXMw/viewform?c=0&w=1

If you can do this before Friday, we might get them to reconsider, and  e-mail  your message directly to President Brodhead also. President@duke.edu.

Duke claims it will reduce their carbon footprint, but it seems that they have some tricky way of calculating that, ignoring some types of emissions, and that in actuality, it will increase air pollution. There was a representative from NRDC (National Resources Defense Council) there who said they had offered to help evaluate the project repeatedly over the last 7 months and that Duke has not cooperated. Jim Warren and others from NC Warn spoke about the harm this plant will cause and the secrecy in the way it has been planned.

It is not a done deal yet, so you can help stop it by contacting Duke's President Brodhead at President@duke.edu. Duke prides itself on its efforts to be a leader in climate protection, but this is really a major step backwards, that will cost $55,000,000 dollars, largely paid by Duke Power customers throughout NC for the next 35 years.

Duke has been considering a project to capture methane from hog farms and use that as a bio fuel instead of the fracked gas. That would be awesome, but they should not build the plant first before making sure the captured methane supply will be reliable. There is a lot of room for more solar power at Duke also.