Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

(Photo by Phil Taylor)Gaffney, South Carolina’s one-million gallon “Peachoid.”
Did you know Cherokee County, S.C., once produced more peaches than the entire state of Georgia? A million-gallon, peach-shaped water tower built along I-85 was my first hint while driving into Gaffney, where Duke Energy plans to build a 2,234 megawatt nuclear power plant.

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Duke Energy’s coal-fired plant in southern North Carolina. The company is studying whether an addition will capture a maximum of mercury emissions. Construction is planned during the study.
 

Energy demand clashed with economics Tuesday morning at the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission hearing on the state’s long-term electricity demand, and the environment was [...]

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Duke Energy’s Lake Wylie Hydro Station, straddling York County, South Carolina and Mecklenburg, North Carolina, generates 60 megawatts of power, enough to power almost 10,000 homes. North Carolina passed an energy mandate last year requiring utilities like Duke to have 12.5 percent of its energy come from renewable sources and energy efficiency by 2021.
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When presidential candidates stump in Nevada, the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain takes center stage. White House hopefuls and the national media zero in on the potential storage site as the state’s most pivotal issue. For Nevadans, however, Yucca is not the top political priority.
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The butterfly effect theorizes that a change in something innocuous can have huge consequences, that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings might create a tornado on the other side of the world. Read more here.

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