As if Moncure wasn't depressed enough already...not talking about the people. There are some really good folks there but I would not raise my kids there. I miss Ms. Edith. Oh the times I would go to her house and she would have an ice cold Coke (in those 10 oz bottles) waiting for me. And then when she got sick, it broke my heart. She was my mentor. I miss Ms. Lucy too but she seems to have quite a social life for someone her age according to my twin friends...you know who you are. Life goes on!

Anyway, we all know our President is hell bent on closing coal plants. Maybe that's why he only got 51% of the Democratic vote in West Virginia's primary and a convicted felon got the rest. Pretty telling huh?

Here's the Moncure news. Saw this just a few minutes ago on Facebook.

Duke's Progress unit to speed coal plant retirement, shut another

Washington (Platts)--27Jul2012/354 pm EDT/1954 GMT

Duke Energy on Friday said its newly acquired Progress Energy Carolinas subsidiary will this fall shut a coal-fired power plant in North Carolina more than six months earlier than planned and will close its only coal-fired unit in South Carolina.

The utility said its 316-MW Cape Fear near Moncure, North Carolina, and its 177-MW H.B. Robinson Unit 1 plant near Hartsville, South Carolina, will be retired on October 1.

The Cape Fear plant was Progress' first coal-fired facility and was scheduled to retire June 2013 as part of a fleet-modernization plan announced in 2009. Three oil-fired combustion turbines will continue to operate at the site after the coal plant's retirement.
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Kirk D. Smith said...: That is what "green" energy looks like! We will endure rolling brown and black outs! The United Mine Workers union will be unemployed! I wonder if they are glad they supported Democrats?; July 30, 2012 at 12:18 PM