Dr. Matthew Wasson
CHARLOTTE, NC – “Duke Energy made an unusual request of its coal suppliers last month: Quote the price of coal mined without blasting Appalachian mountaintops. With that, the nation’s third-largest utility in power sales hinted that it might cut ties to the environmentally destructive and politically explosive practice…
‘I definitely smell a rat,’ said Matt Wasson, program director at Appalachian Voices in Boone. ‘I have very strong suspicions that this is not about a sincere effort to protect mountaintops from coal mining.’ Wasson said he expects Duke to claim that non-[mountaintop removal] coal is too costly to rely on solely…
Another of the nation’s biggest utilities, Ohio-based American Electric Power, is already talking to regulators about its ability to consider more than price when buying coal, including whether it came from mountaintop-removal mines.”
— Bruce Henderson, Charlotte Observer
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