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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19177268404829557412014-08-28T18:13:18.408-04:00Earth & EnergyNotes on energy and the environmentCharlotte firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-16018879199564052502014-08-28T18:13:00.000-04:002014-08-28T18:13:18.432-04:00NC 10th nationally for 2Q clean energy jobsNorth Carolina ranked 10th nationally for clean energy and transportation jobs in the second quarter, the business group Environmental Entrepreneurs said Thursday.

A report from the group says 272 new jobs, highest among states in the Southeast, were created by four announcements in the state.

The 12,500 jobs created nationally more than doubled the results from the first quarter, the group said. It attributed that to "new confidence about future clean energy growth" linked to the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon limits on power plants, announced in June.

Solar energy led all sectors with 5,300 U.S. jobs in the second quarter, followed by 2,700 in wind and major electric-car announcements by Tesla and General Motors.

Arizona led all states in new jobs, followed by California.Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-24205518403570229652014-08-14T07:00:00.000-04:002014-08-14T07:00:02.923-04:00EPA adds to NC's polluted-water list The Environmental Protection Agency has added to North Carolina's list of polluted waterways, saying the state should have included 52 more bodies of water than it did.

States have to update the so-called 303(d) list of impaired waters every two years. But EPA objected to new methodology the state Environmental Management Commission adopted to update this year's list.

EPA added back to the state's list 52 river and stream segments that are impaired by metals, which can be toxic to fish and humans. The additions include Mecklenburg County's Irwin Creek, where the water contains lead and zinc.

EPA spokeswoman Dawn Harris-Young said adding to a state list is "not common, but it is not an unusual occurrence." EPA added one segment to North Carolina's 2012 list, state officials say.

The state environment commission last year raised the bar for proving that waterways are impaired.

Under the old standard, more than 10 percent of water samples had to show elevated levels of contaminants to be deemed impaired. The commission added a requirement that sample results be shown to be accurate at a 90 percent confidence level.

Establishing that confidence level meant analyzing more water samples. The N.C. Division of Water Resources moved some water bodies, for which it lacked the additional data, from "impaired" to "inconclusive."

The EPA objected, adding those waterways back to the list. It will take public comment on the additions through Sept. 12 -- email firstname.lastname@example.com.

EPA approved the state's listing of nearly 1,200 water bodies as impaired, and the removal of 227.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-33624031785895056852014-07-30T07:00:00.000-04:002014-07-30T07:00:00.927-04:00NC Wildlife Federation announces award winnersThe North Carolina Wildlife Federation has announced the winners of the annual Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards.

The federation has presented the awards since 1958. This year's awards will also induct environmental philanthropist Fred Stanback of Salisbury into the Conservation Hall of Fame. Stanback previously was named Conservationist of the Year in 2005.

Award winners will be honored at a Sept. 6 banquet in Cary:

Conservationist of the Year: Jean Beasley of Topsail Island for her work with sea turtles

Wildlife Conservationist: Robert Curry, chief of inland fisheries for the N.C. Wildlife Commission in Raleigh

Sportsman: Bryan Perry of Zebulon for his work with wild turkeys

Land Conservationist: Jamin Simmons, a farmer from Fairfield who embraces innovation

Water Conservationist: Roger Dick of Albemarle for his defense of rivers, lakes and public access

Environmental Educator: Shaefny Grays of Morrisville for a mentoring program at N.C. State University's College of Natural Resources

Conservation Communicator: Joe Albea of Winterville for his advocacy of wildlife on public television and other media

Youth Conservationist: Rachel Hopkins, a student in Raleigh who advocates for nongame species

Legislator: Rep. Chuck McGrady of Hendersonville for his attention to conservation

Municipal Conservationist: The City of Jacksonville for showcasing the New River

Wildlife Volunteer: John Spruill of Hampstead for fighting for wildlife, farms and wild lands in Eastern North Carolina

Hunter Safety Educator: Stony Rushing of Wingate for helping underserved hunters

NCWF Chapter: Habitat and Wildlife Keepers in Matthews, which turned its community green

NCWF Affiliate: North Carolina Hunters for the Hungry, whose volunteers process and donate venison

Natural Resources Scientist: Christopher Moorman of Raleigh for his work with wildlife-friendly forestry

Conservation Organization: Quality Deer Management Association for combining hunting with conservation

Business Conservationist: The Webb Farm of Ellerbe for work with quail hunting on a family farm

Wildlife Enforcement Officer: Master Officer Robert Newsome of Marion for merging law enforcement with public outreach

Marine Fisheries Enforcement Officer: Sgt. Carter Witten of Havelock for leading special enforcement projects in Eastern North Carolina.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-65981574009592420952014-07-25T16:43:00.001-04:002014-07-25T16:43:23.810-04:00Enviro groups unhappy with ash legislationSeveral environmental groups wrote N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger and House speaker Thom Tillis on Friday to complain about the coal ash legislation now before a legislative conference committee.

Legislation adopted by both chambers sets Duke Energy on a 15-year timeline to drain each of its 33 ash ponds in North Carolina. Differences between the two include House changes that allow extensions to the timeline and changes in how groundwater contamination is defined. Neither says whether consumers would pay to clean up the ponds.

House and Senate members say their work puts North Carolina at the forefront of states in dealing with ash and predict it will serve as a national cleanup model.

But the environmental groups wrote that "the current legislation inexplicably attempts to weaken our state's existing groundwater protection laws in favor of Duke Energy while allowing Duke to continue polluting state waters and putting our communities at risk."

The letter was signed by the Southern Environmental Law Center, which represents groups in litigation against Duke, and representatives of 11 advocacy groups including Charlotte's Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation.

It listed three "fundamental problems" with the legislation:

Ash is required to be removed from ponds at only four of Duke's 14 coal-fired power plants in the state. The groups say ash could stay in place, near water it could contaminate, at the remaining 10 plants.

House members inserted language they said was intended to prevent over-broad interpretations of a judge's order this year that state law requires "immediate action" to eliminate sources of groundwater pollution. Advocates say the change "is a clear effort to gut that requirement."

The bill allows Duke the option of bringing unpermitted leaks from its coal ash dams under existing permits.

"In short, the bill as written actually weakens North Carolina's protections against coal ash pollution, which is alarming given the recent disaster at the Dan River facility and frequent assurances that this bill would provide strong protections for our citizens," the groups wrote. "It is not too late to make good on those promises."

Rep. Chuck McGrady and Sen. Tom Apodaca, both Republicans from Hendersonville, are the respective leads for ash legislation in the House and Senate and are expected to try to arrive at a compromise bill. No word when it will appear.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-52918778115968552582014-07-17T17:01:00.000-04:002014-07-17T17:01:18.466-04:00Duke Energy Carolinas slips in customer surveyDuke Energy Carolinas, which serves the Charlotte region, slipped in this year's J.D. Power and Associates customer-satisfaction survey of electric utility residential customers.

Duke Carolinas scored 641 on a 1,000-point scale, according to results out this week. That ranked it ninth-highest among 13 large utilities in the South.

In 2013 Duke had 656 points, ranking sixth-highest. In 2012 its 637 points ranked ninth.

A coal ash spill into the Dan River and subsequent federal grand jury investigation couldn't have helped Duke in the rankings, which are based in part on corporate citizenship.

But that wasn't the driving factor in the ratings drop, said J.D. Power official Jeff Conklin. More important, he said, were responses to survey questions about power quality and reliability, and about price. Duke Carolinas has raised rates three times since 2009.

Duke Energy Progress, the utility that serves Raleigh and the eastern Carolinas, did even worse in the survey. Its 637 points this year put it in 11th place in the region. That's a drop from 2012, before the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy, when the utility then known as Progress Energy Carolinas ranked sixth.

The survey measures customer satisfaction in six areas: power quality and reliability; price; billing and payment; corporate citizenship; communications and customer service.

Results nationwide showed improved ratings, J.D. Power said, due to improvements in corporate behavior and communicating with customers about outages. But electric utilities still lag in customer satisfaction compared to other home services such as cable TV and Internet providers.Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-11638766660200942192014-07-08T11:02:00.000-04:002014-07-08T11:02:09.464-04:00Public supports ban on coyote shooting in red wolf territoryPublic comments favor, by a wide margin, a ban on hunting coyotes in red-wolf territory as the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission meets Thursday to discuss the issue.

In May a federal judge ordered the state to end its open season on coyotes in the five coastal counties -- Dare, Tyrell, Hyde, Beaufort and Washington -- roamed by the rare wolves, which resemble coyotes. Temporary rules the commission has proposed put the injunction in effect.

Rising numbers of gunshot wolves, often when they're mistaken for coyotes, threaten the species' survival on the Albemarle Peninsula of northeastern North Carolina, federal biologists say. Between 90 and 110 wolves live in the area.

Public comments the commission solicited found that 3,108 agree with the ban and just 69 disagree. That doesn't count form letters from members of the Southern Environmental Law Center, whose clients sued to stop coyote hunting, and Safari Club International.

More than 40 people submitted comments at a public hearing in Columbia on June 19.

The rules would take effect Aug. 1, but U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle has said he would revisit his injunction six months after he made the ruling.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-86508762999569938112014-03-21T15:40:00.002-04:002014-03-21T15:40:58.617-04:00Duke presses for answer on hydro licenseDuke Energy is pressing federal regulators to issue a new hydroelectric license for the Catawba River that is now five years overdue and snarled in legal limbo.

The license gives Duke authority to operate its 13 dams on the Catawba in both Carolinas. The original 50-year license expired in 2008.

Environmentalists challenged the renewal terms, saying Duke's dams would hurt the recovery of endangered shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon. That issue appears to have been resolved last year when a federal agency agreed the dams wouldn't threaten the survival of the fish.

South Carolina has posed a thornier challenge. Duke can renew its federal license only after the state agrees that the dams won't hurt the Catawba's water quality.

South Carolina initially refused to make that finding amid the turmoil of a U.S. Supreme Court case, later settled, between the two states over rights to the river.

Now before South Carolina's Supreme Court is whether the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control suspended a 180-day deadline to act on the water-quality certification.

This week Duke asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ignore the court case, saying it could take years to resolve. Duke asked FERC to rule that South Carolina has waived its right to grant or deny the water certification.

"The commission has a federal mandate to act now and it has everything it needs to do so," Duke wrote. "... Every licensee and every license application deserves due process and continued delays are not warranted for this project."

Approval will unleash millions of dollars in recreational improvements and land conservation Duke promised in negotiating the license terms.

Silence so far from FERC.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-5580180109377367402014-01-23T07:00:00.000-05:002014-01-23T07:00:04.979-05:00Are insect-ravaged hemlocks at a tipping point?A Japanese insect called the hemlock woolly adelgid has devastated Southern Appalachian hemlock forests, but apparently not to the degree expected, new research shows.

The U.S. Forest Service released a study Wednesday that says the majestic trees might still be growing fast enough in the East to offset the insect's damage.

The adelgid was first spotted in Virginia in the 1950s. By 1980, damage had begun in the hemlock's Appalachian range running from northern Georgia to Canada. Trees were hit hardest in the South, where mild winters don't help limit the insect's spread.

Lead author Talbot Trotter, an ecologist at the service's Northern Research Station in Pennsylvania, says the study might have captured a tipping point between hemlock losses and increases due to forest regrowth. The study used forest data only through 2007.

"Repeating this analysis as new (forest) data becomes available may show if we are beyond a tipping point and are now losing hemlock," he said.Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-38669164755692104342014-01-07T16:35:00.003-05:002014-01-08T12:58:05.007-05:00Gas prices to drop, solar to rise, feds sayThe Energy Information Administration's new short-term energy outlook forecasts some interesting trends through 2015. Some bullet points from administrator Adam Sieminski:

-- Gasoline prices are expected to trend downward over the next two years, averaging $3.46 per gallon in 2014 and $3.39 per gallon in 2015, as U.S. crude oil production grows and crude prices fall.

-- U.S. crude oil production could set a record in 2015 with the highest output since 1972. Production is projected to rise by 1 million barrels a day this year to 8.5 million barrels, and then rise to 9.3 million barrels per day in 2015. Imports would drop to 24 percent of total liquid fuels consumption, the lowest level since 1970.

-- Onshore natural gas production will continue increasing over the next two years, with the Marcellus Shale of eastern North America offsetting declines in the Gulf of Mexico.

 -- Average household electricity use is expected to decline 1.1 percent this year and another 0.4 percent in 2015 due to improved appliance and lighting efficiency. Dropping household use will be offset by increased demand from industries.

-- U.S. wind power capacity is forecast to increase 8.8 percent this year and 15 percent in 2015. But utility-scale solar capacity is expected to zoom up 40 percent between now and the end of 2015.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-15892513129569408922013-12-11T07:00:00.000-05:002013-12-11T07:00:12.108-05:00Duke Energy silent on ALEC tiesDuke Energy isn't saying whether it's a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, the conservative, state-level policy group that is a frequent target of the left.

The British newspaper The Guardian released internal documents last week that list Duke as a lapsed ALEC member. ALEC counts as members nearly one-third of North Carolina's Republican-led legislature, including House Speaker Thom Tillis of Cornelius, the documents show.

Duke won't confirm or deny being a member. Duke has supported ALEC's past events, including spending $50,000 to sponsor a 2012 meeting in Charlotte, and might do so again, says spokesman Tom Williams.

All six of the states in Duke's territory -- the Carolinas, Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky -- have Republican-majority legislatures, Williams notes, and five have Republican governors.

"It's all about having a seat at the table as discussions are held, and sometimes supporting things and sometimes not," Williams says.

Greenpeace and other groups say Duke's status matters because of ALEC's positions on renewable energy. Among them is a proposal that, critics say, would make it more expensive for owners of rooftop solar panels to pay utilities to use the electric grid.

"Duke's customers deserve to know whether their utility stands with an organization that plans to attack homeowners in North Carolina who have installed solar panels," Greenpeace researcher Connor Gibson said by e-mail. Duke's membership would "prove," he said that the utility supports the ALEC proposal.

ALEC lost support following the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida last year for its support of "stand-your-ground" laws.

Dozens of bills introduced in the N.C. legislature this year, including measures on voter identification and private school vouchers, reflected the group's positions, Raleigh's News & Observer has reported.Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-45738478055049238982013-12-04T15:23:00.001-05:002013-12-04T15:23:18.161-05:00Fewer Charlotte commuters get to work by carA slightly smaller proportion of metro Charlotteans is commuting by car as working from home, public transit use and biking increase, says a new study based on federal transportation and census data.

The study was commissioned by the NCPIRG Education Fund, a Raleigh-based consumer group. The group declared the results, which showed an overall drop in miles traveled by vehicles, to mean "the driving boom is over." It urged policy makers to invest more heavily in public transit and biking.

The proportion of commuters using cars dropped in 99 of the 100 largest U.S. cities in recent years, the report says. That included a 3.4 percent drop in metro Charlotte between 2000 and the period of 2007-11, the ninth-largest decrease nationwide.

Public transit passenger-miles transit increased in a majority of cities, including Charlotte. So did biking, although Charlotte showed little recent change. Every metro area showed an increase in employees working from home.Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-71635135024991044442013-11-07T11:27:00.003-05:002013-11-07T11:27:24.461-05:00Doubts grow on man-made climate change Mecklenburg County residents are becoming more dubious about man-made climate change even as scientists become more sure of it, the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute's annual survey shows.

Three out of four residents still believe climate change is a serious problem. But the number who say it's not a problem has doubled since 2012, to 14 percent, the survey shows.

UNC Charlotte Urban Institute 2013 Annual Survey data

And while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in September raised its confidence that humans are the main driver of warming to 95 percent, Mecklenburg finds that proposition less convincing.

Fewer than 40 percent of those surveyed blame human activity, significantly lower than the 45.5 percent who said so in 2012.

A Pew Research Center poll in June found Americans generally less concerned about climate change than people in the rest of the world.

The Urban Institute quotes assistant earth-science professor Manda Adams, who studies the interaction between weather, climate and energy systems, as saying "there's still a lot of confusion in the general public" about climate change.

Most climate scientists, she notes, no longer debate causes. Instead, she says, they focus on the "lots of little parts that we don't have an understanding of yet."

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-12739061015855207642013-10-15T14:34:00.000-04:002013-10-15T14:34:04.658-04:00Rates could save customers millions, analysts sayCustomers of Duke Energy Progress could save $50 million a year by switching to a little-used rate, says a Wilmington firm that audits and analyzes utility rates.

Utility Management Services says most residential customers with electric bills of more than about $125 a month can save money on the R-TOUD, or time-of-use, rate schedule. The schedule charges more for electricity during weekday high-demand periods and much less at night and on weekends, when there is less demand for electricity.

Most large-use customers realize a net savings -- equal to about one month's bill -- over a 12-month period, according to UMS' analysis. Duke Progress serves Eastern North Carolina and the Asheville area.

Here's the catch: Duke Progress is phasing out R-TOUD for new customers on Nov. 30, and will replace it with a new time-of-use schedule that UMS says won't save customers as much money.

But Duke spokesman Jeff Brooks says the new schedule, R-TOU, has changes that customers will like.

Under the old schedule's on-peak/ off-peak prices, he said, some customers could see their bills actually go up. That happened if they weren't careful to run high-demand appliances such as the dishwasher or clothes dryer at night or weekend off-peak hours.

"The key to any time-of-use rate is aligning habits to the benefits of the rate," Brooks said.

The new schedule's peak, shoulder and off-peak times are intended to send "price signals" that motivate customers to pay attention to their energy use. Those who don't will not end up paying more than if they used a standard rate. "The flexibility will be more attractive to customers," Brooks said.

R-TOUD has been around for 30 years but has only 30,000 customers. Utility Management Services says another 500,000 customers could save money by using the rate.

The company's founder, Brian Coughlin, testified as an expert witness on behalf of business customers during Duke Progress' rate hearing before the N.C. Utilities Commission.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-14152490543312932382013-10-10T12:08:00.001-04:002013-10-10T12:08:41.193-04:00Duke CEO among Fortune's 50 "most powerful women" Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good, who took over leadership of the nation's largest regulated utility on July 1, has made Fortune's list of the 50 most powerful women in business.

Good landed at No. 16 on the list, just behind business stars including Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg (No. 5) and Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard (No. 9). She's the highest-ranked new member of the 50-woman club.

Fortune writes that Duke's former chief financial officer, 54, was elevated to "to steady the ship after Duke's merger with Progress Energy, executive departures and an investigation (actually two) into whether misled state regulators about management of the combined company."

Good succeeded former CEO Jim Rogers, who will retire as chairman of Duke at the end of the year. Rogers agreed to retire as part of Duke's settlement of the merger investigation by the N.C. Utilities Commission. Lead director Ann Maynard Gray will replace Rogers. Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-38598021843211499592013-10-03T11:48:00.000-04:002013-10-03T11:48:16.217-04:00Federal judge says coal ash needs regulationIn a partial victory for two North Carolina advocacy groups, among several others, a federal judge has ruled that the government needs to regulate coal ash.

The order was signed Monday by Judge Reggie Walton in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It grants in part a claim by 11 advocacy groups including Appalachian Voices of Boone, Asheville's French Broad Riverkeeper and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which operates in the Carolinas.

The groups say the order "marks the first step toward federally enforceable safeguards, monitoring and protections against coal ash."

Their lawsuit, filed in 2012, sought to force the Environmental Protection Agency to write new regulations for coal ash, the power plant byproduct that's been the focus of lawsuits against Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

The groups contend EPA has failed for more than 30 years to regulate ash. The issue burst into national consciousness in 2008, when a rupture at a TVA plant in Tennessee spilled 1 billion gallons of ash over 300 acres.

Worries about contamination of Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte's water supply, groundwater and other waters -- publicized by the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation and other advocates -- pushed the state of North Carolina this summer to sue Duke Energy over ash violations.

EPA, meanwhile, proposed federal regulations on ash in 2010 but has not enacted them.

This week's terse order rules in favor of the environmental groups' claims that EPA violated the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which governs solid and hazardous wastes, by failing to review the impact of ash on water and air quality.

The court ruled for the EPA on two other claims on review of standards that define hazardous waste. Environmental advocates say ash should be listed as hazardous because of the potentially toxic heavy metals it contains. The power industry says such a classification would raise the costs of handling ash by billions of dollars.

The court is expected to expand on the order within 30 days.
 Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-11720375917753779982013-08-28T16:42:00.000-04:002013-08-28T16:42:27.441-04:00Interactive water-quality maps postedThe N.C. Division of Water Resources has created nine interactive maps that locate facilities or activities with water-quality permits.

The maps give the locations and descriptions of sites such as hog farms, municipal and industrial wastewater treatment systems, and stormwater facilities.

The maps can be searched by location, permit type, facility name, permit number and status, county or administrative region and river basin.

The maps complement the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Permit Application Tracker, which lets viewers follow pending environmental permit applications.Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-38821859465687952412013-08-26T14:48:00.000-04:002013-08-26T14:48:01.712-04:00Summer interns power Carolinas energy sectorEnergy firms in the Carolinas put about 600 interns to work this summer, creating a pathway for new entries into an aging workforce, says the two-state trade association E4 Carolinas.

Internships and cooperative education assignments give students a peek into prospective careers and let employers evaluate potential hires. There's some urgency to internship programs that span Charlotte area's largest energy companies, including Duke Energy, Westinghouse and ABB.

E4 quotes the Center for Energy Workforce Development as reporting that 46 percent of the industry's workforce -- 200,000 workers nationally -- might have to be replaced by 2015 as baby-boomers retire.

Many companies say they have a hard time finding qualified people for skilled positions. U.S. children, meanwhile, are lagging in science and math.

Carolinas companies say internships help close that gap by giving them a pipeline to talent.

Siemens Energy in Charlotte is known for its innovative partnership with Central Piedmont Community College and the Centralina Workforce Development Board to train new workers. SCANA's nuclear program hires 40 percent of its interns.

"Internship programs serve as outstanding human resources marketing tools," E4 quotes Joan Espinosa, who heads HR in North America for Charlotte-based SGL Group. "A positive experience with the company gives us a unique insight into what is coming out of the universities."

Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-90784523330635876642013-08-23T15:44:00.000-04:002013-08-26T14:57:03.421-04:00McCrory signs 'job-promoting' enviro billGov. Pat McCrory signed a bill Friday to cut "burdensome regulation" that dissolves the state's water-quality division, relaxes groundwater standards and places a moratorium on local environmental rules.

McCrory had hinted he might veto the Regulatory Reform Act. Instead he signed it nearly a month after the bill landed on his desk and two days before a veto deadline.

Environmental pieces of the bill:

-- Require state agencies to review rules every 10 years to judge whether they're still in the public interest. Rules that are not reviewed will expire.

-- Let billboard operators take down trees outside defined cut zones on freeway ramps in order to make their signs more visible.

-- Ban until October 2014 new, local environmental ordinances on issues that state or federal laws also address -- unless the ordinances are adopted unanimously.

-- Extend the "compliance boundary" for groundwater contamination violations, previously 500 feet from the source, to the owner's property line. Existing compliance boundaries won't change. Duke Energy, which has been sued by the state over coal-ash pollution, and its critics disagree on whether the change will benefit the company.

-- Combines the N.C. Division of Water Quality, which policed water pollution, with the N.C. Division of Water Resources. Their combined staffs are expected to be about 15 percent smaller as the streamlined division adopts a customer-friendly approach to regulation.Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-23031600631866844782013-08-12T13:08:00.000-04:002013-08-12T13:08:17.718-04:00DENR to see jump in "exempt" jobsNorth Carolina's environment secretary, John Skvarla, scrambled late Friday to explain to his staff a big jump in the number whose jobs will be defined as "exempt," meaning they can be fired without cause or appeal.

House Bill 834, now on Gov. Pat McCrory's desk, increases from 1,000 to 1,500 the number of exempt positions in state government. "Exempt" includes managers deemed to be vital to the enterprise, but the term also embraces policy-makers who are supposed to carry out the governor's agenda.

Raleigh's WRAL reported that exempt positions at the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources would rise from 24 under former Gov. Bev Perdue's term to 167 under McCrory -- the biggest jump among the eight departments affected by the bill.

Environmental advocates say the move will force top DENR officials to toe the Republican-dominated legislature's view of regulations as job-killers. The legislature has cut budgeting and moved whole divisions out of DENR.

Skvarla, in an after-hours email Friday to DENR staff members whose jobs will become exempt, called it a "badge of distinction of which you should be proud."

"It was always silly to pretend that only 30 or so people in a department of nearly 4,000 were making managerial decisions," he wrote. "DENR has more than 600 managers, and the majority of those carry the responsibility necessary to operate our agency."

Skvarla says management changes will be based on "competency, efficiency, performance and changing requirements, not based on politics."

The exempt-jobs news came after legislators last month dissolved the Division of Water Quality, which polices water pollution, and rolled it into the Division of Water Resources. The change is expected to trim the combined staff by about 15 percent as top managers adopt a "customer-friendly" regulatory approach.
Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-34216411636077106472013-08-01T15:00:00.000-04:002013-08-01T15:00:09.928-04:00UNC to Duke Energy: Include us in renewables rateThe 17-campus University of North Carolina system wants in on the renewable-energy rate Duke Energy has proposed for large energy users such as data farms.

In a letter to new Duke CEO Lynn Good this week, UNC president Tom Ross notes that system's goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050. But 3 percent annual growth in the system's footprint makes that target a challenge, Ross writes.

Duke said in April it would seek a new rate structure for large customers to boost development of renewable energy. The news came as Google announced a $600 million expansion of its Lenoir data center.

Ross' letter, provided by Greenpeace, said UNC likes the idea and could become "a potentially significant customer" of the new rate class. He asks that the university system be allowed input into the rate design before it's submitted to the N.C. Utilities Commission.

Duke spokesman Randy Wheeless said the tariff will be filed with the commission in the next few weeks. UNC "would definitely fit the profile" of potential customers, he said.
Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-78192358438595584762013-07-30T14:23:00.000-04:002013-07-30T14:23:24.557-04:00Greensboro takes Duke Energy tree complaint to regulatorsContinuing a dust-up that began months ago, the city of Greensboro this week filed a formal complaint about Duke's tree-trimming practices with the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Residents of some of the city's oldest, leafiest neighborhoods began complaining last December that Duke was over-pruning trees that could hit power lines. So many complaints poured in that Duke, under threat of legal action by the city, agreed to a temporary halt to work out their differences.

"Vegetation management," as utilities call it, is a hot-wire because it can disfigure trees. Utilities say it's necessary to reduce power outages.

In June, after months of meetings, Greensboro's city council adopted a new ordinance regulating tree-trimming by utilities. But the measure didn't resolve all issues, and Duke and the city agreed to take their differences to the Utilities Commission.

The city wants Duke to remove large wood trimmings when property owners ask; agree to a local appeals process; apply pruning standards citywide; and shorten the period between trimmings to four to five years, making them less severe.

Duke hasn't yet replied to the city's complaint.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-86764492826533196392013-07-25T16:56:00.002-04:002013-07-25T16:56:42.391-04:00NC budget fires Environmental Management CommissionNorth Carolina's base appropriations budget, ratified Thursday, fires all current members of the state's environmental rule-making board effective next Wednesday.

The move gives Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led legislature, which has targeted environmental regulation as a drag on business, a clean slate to remake the powerful Environmental Management Commission. The commission is charged with adopting rules protecting air and water resources.

The budget pares the commission's 19 members to 15, nine appointed by the governor and six by legislators. It retains most of the specialty positions on the board, such as experts in air and water pollution, biology, agriculture and manufacturing.

McCrory named Charlotte attorney Benne Hutson, whose term was scheduled to end in mid-2014, as EMC chairman effective July 8. Ten members' terms expired June 30.

The budget also fires all but four members of the 15-member Coastal Resources Commission, which adopts rules and policies on coastal development.

Expertise to be represented on the board would continue to include coastal development, engineering, agriculture, fishing and forestry. The board will no longer have designated seats for marine ecology and conservation.

The legislation also pares the state Clean Water Management Trust Fund board from 21 to nine members, but adds language charging the board with land preservation in addition to protecting water resources. The fund had been the state's largest conservation grant source until recent years, when appropriations to it were slashed.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-29239185257181815902013-07-19T06:00:00.000-04:002013-07-19T06:00:12.159-04:00Charlotte commuters drive more than most AmericansCharlotte-area commuters log 1,000 more miles a year and urbanites use public transit half as much as average Americans, says an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

That pattern means local commuters spend some $350 more a year on driving than most Americans, says the analysis of National Household Travel Survey data.

The NRDC's point in all this, of course, is that drivers could save money -- and carbon emissions -- by using transit, carpooling and combining trips more often. Urban commuters in the Charlotte area could save $931 and rural residents $2,163 a year if they took transit, it found.

Shannon Binns, executive director of the nonprofit Sustain Charlotte, said "it is critical that we expand our transit system while also encouraging more carpooling, telecommuting, and moving closer to work, if possible."

In that vein, officials broke ground Thursday for the Lynx Blue Line light-rail extension from uptown to UNC Charlotte. The 9.3-mile line is expected to open in 2017.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-69772856649972940272013-07-17T15:05:00.000-04:002013-07-17T15:08:25.523-04:00Duke gets thumbs-up on endangered fishThe National Marine Fisheries Service says Duke Energy's Catawba River hydroelectric dams won't snuff out two endangered fish species, inching Duke toward a new, 50-year license to manage the river.

Shortnose sturgeon

The fisheries service's final biological opinion says Duke's 11 dams "is likely to adversely affect but is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon." That's good news for Duke, whose hydro license expired in 2008 and has operated on yearly extensions since then.

An ancient species, sturgeon swim upriver to spawn but can't get past dams. The fisheries service estimates their adult spawning populations at only about 300 of each species.

Duke has agreed to start trapping two other migratory species, American shad and blueback herring, and truck them around its Wateree Dam in South Carolina by 2018. The trapping system isn't supposed to capture sturgeon.

Duke says it's reviewing the fisheries service opinion, which has been years in coming. But it still has to resolve legal issues in South Carolina.

The S.C. Court of Appeals ruled last December that state environmental officials had not missed a deadline to oppose a water-quality permit Duke also needs to renew the federal license. Duke asked the S.C. Supreme Court in June to review that ruling.

Once those issues are resolved, Catawba licensing manager Mark Oakley said last month, Duke expects the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to take about six months to review the license. If the review begins this summer, Duke could finally have its license in the first quarter of 2014.

Approval will unleash millions of dollars in recreational improvements and land conservation Duke promised in negotiating the license terms.

Bruce Hendersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917726840482955741.post-56969947996673876622013-07-01T16:54:00.001-04:002013-07-01T16:54:37.052-04:00Air study looks at the Southeast's cooling trendPart of the largest U.S. air-quality field study in decades is examining whether human-caused pollution and natural chemical emissions explain a cooling trend in the leafy Southeast.

The Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study began last month and runs through July 15. It's part of a five-pronged air study that will deploy airplanes and ground-based instruments from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic.

The study will look at how interactions between natural and human-made emissions affect air quality -- and how they relate to climate change. Unlike much of the world, the Southeast has seen a cooling trend over the past century.

The region saw a warm period during the 1920s to 1940s, says the U.S. Global Change Research Program, followed by a downward trend through the 1960s. Temperatures have been rising again since the 1970s.

Pollutants interact with volatile organic compounds that come from plants, turning them into airborne particles called aerosols. So-called black aerosols absorb solar radiation and warm up temperatures. But lighter-colored ones, typical of the Southeast, reflect sunlight and have a cooling effect.

Light aerosols have a dark side. They can make ground-level ozone -- which cities such as Charlotte and Atlanta have wrestled with for decades -- worse.

The larger study is supported by the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Electric Power Research Institute, with researchers from 30 U.S. and international institutions.

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Kingston wins share of £100m Mayor of London cycle funding for 'mini Holland' project
Updated 11:00am Wednesday 26th March 2014 in News
Kingston has won a bid to turn the borough into a 'mini-Holland' cycling haven as part of a £100m initiative by the Mayor of London.
The announcement was made at City Hall in London this morning.
Kingston is one of three winners, along with Enfield and Waltham Forest, who will now share a £100m pot to turn their boroughs into cycle friendly districts with a series of innovations.
Each winning applicant will receive up to £30m to turn its vision for cycling into a reality, with the remaining £10m to be divided between four other shortlisted boroughs, including Richmond and Merton.
The Greater London Authority will be writing to the winners within the next two weeks informing them of how it wants the money spent, based on their applications.
Yes: The 700m Thames Boardwalk will almost certainly be built following Kingston's winning bid
Maybe: The proposed Superskyway (above and below) next to Kingston Bridge is also a possibility
Kingston's application included an elevated 'superskyway' cycle bridge over the Thames, as well as a 700-metre boardway along the river.
There were also radical plans to turn the front of Kingston station into a pedestrian and cyclist only plaza, with car traffic passing underground through a newly-built underpass.
The underpass proposal has already been written off, as it is likely to cost about £40m - more than the bid money itself.
But the idea to transform the front of the station is still a priority.
Councillor Simon James, lead member for transport, said it was almost certain the boardway idea would go ahead, as mayor Boris Johnson mentioned it in his speech at City Hall today.
He said: "I don't think that would have been in his speech if he didn't want it.
"The whole underpass thing isn't going to happen, but this money will allow a lot more at the station and make access to the town centre much better.
"The plaza and the boardway are in the yes category - as for the rest we'll have to wait and see."
New cycling routes connecting Kingston town centre with Surbiton and New Malden are also on the cards.
At the launch, Kingston Council leader Liz Green said: "We are a cycle-loving borough. So we are naturally delighted to have secured funding through the Mini Holland initiative to transform cycling infrastructure in Kingston in the coming years.
"We have many innovative plans including landmark projects, major network improvements and a range of complementary measures."
Not quite: Kingston station will still get a new plaza, but not the proposed underpass. Above how the underpass plaza would have looked
Artist's impressions of the now abandoned plan for an underpass below Kingston Plaza
Hopes are still high that Surbiton station will also get a new plaza and cycle hub as part of the successful bid
New cycle routes connecting Kingston with New Malden and Surbiton are likely to be built
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12:24pm Mon 10 Mar 14
FSD2013 says...
1:58pm Mon 10 Mar 14
reesmf says...
4:19pm Mon 10 Mar 14
pinky107 says...
though the money world be better spent filling in pot holes and other road problems rather than some cycle route thing that wont get used much and will end up being negelcted in its upkeep .
waste of money to be honest , when there are so many places for cyclists to go to , instead of building all this for the sake of a handful of users when the car traffic will get worse .
4:24pm Mon 10 Mar 14
Tony from Surbiton says...
4:57pm Mon 10 Mar 14
Tobermory says...
5:24pm Mon 10 Mar 14
Marple says...
We do not need mini Hollands in Kingston , when this Council says that there is no money to repair our potholes/ repair cracked footpaths,maintain our roads/housing /off street parking/ day centres for the elderly/vulnerable etc., RBK having to sell off their property assets in order to save money
etc. Smallest Borough in London -highest Council tax. Bottle necks in the Borough because of poor traffic management.
The last thing we need is fancy pontoons on the Thames for recreational cyclists, elaborate cycle lanes taking up the room for vehicles ,public transport and emergency services on already crowded roads
Unfortunately the word ' Priorities ' does not seem to take priority in this
Council's vocabulary - mores the pity
12:44am Tue 11 Mar 14
Sinjin says...
3:14pm Tue 11 Mar 14
bluelemmy says...
The lycra thugs, whom as a cyclist I dislike as much as any car driver (I am a car driver, too) or pedestrian have Richmond Park to do their bullying.
I fear that we will end up with £30m spent on 'look what we've done for cyclists' vanity projects for the council.
4:32pm Tue 11 Mar 14
bystander tolworth says...
s do, should they be given so much consideration. They should be forced to take a test, again in the same way that car drivers/motorcyclist
s do, and then we might (some hope) get them to observe red lights. They should also be forced, as are motorcyclists, to wear a helmet. Go ahead and give me the thumbs down vote as much as you want but until cyclists are forced to undergo the same things as car drivers/ motorcyclists have to should they be given equal weighting in traffic matters
4:58pm Tue 11 Mar 14
chramies says...
However I don't like the look of that cycleway suspended over the water. This is England we're talking about. People get drunk. People mess about and threaten (sometimes not just threaten) to push cyclists into the water.
8:20pm Tue 11 Mar 14
Sinjin says...
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The goalkeeper's 16 saves earned him the title "Human Wall." There have been several tributes to him including saving dinosaurs from extinction, the Titantic. Mount Rushmore even became Mount Howard. But one of the best tributes goes to whoever changed the Wikipedia entry making Tim Howard U.S. Secretary of Defense.
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Collaboration on 'Dog and Pony' looks promising at The Old Globe
By Diana Saenger
The three collaborators behind the Old Globe's world premiere of the romantic musical comedy, "Dog and Pony," are playwright Rick Elice, composer Michael Patrick Walker and director Roger Rees. The trio has much in common and their body of work is well noted.
The plot follows a successful screenwriting team, Mags and Andy, as their professional relationship evolves into something more. Blending three different talents on one project takes a lot of collaboration, and that's something Elice said he enjoys doing. Elice also penned "The Addams Family," "Peter and the Starcatcher," and, with Marshall Brickman, co-wrote "Jersey Boys," which won the 2006 Tony Award, 2007 Grammy Award, and 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical.
"The screwball comedies of the 1930s and early '40s dealt with the intimate circumstances between men and women in the workplace, who were not husband and wife," Elice said. "In my experience, I found myself in a situation that was intimate, even romantic at times, and it seemed to supersede other relationships in our lives. Eventually, things changed from incredibly seductive to a little sour."
It was while acting in a play by Elaine May (half of the of Mike Nichols and Elaine May comedy team) that Elice said he began to talk to her about their personal relationship.
"Her voice stuck in my head and I decided I wanted to write a story about a girl like her and a guy like me, not a marital-sanction relationship guy, and how that would wreck everything eventually," he said.
"The pleasure for me in collaborating with Michael, a wonderful composer and lyrist who wrote 'Altar Boyz,' and 'Land of Dreams,' is the songs seem to grow out of the dialogue in a way that is stealthy, clever and not corny.
"'Dog and Pony,' feels very modern, but is not divisive in its structure because before you realize it, the characters are not speaking anymore they are singing."
It was director Rees ("Julius Caesar," "The Merry Wives of Windsor"), who got the call from The Globe's artistic director, Barry Edelstein, who was looking for a good new musical. Rees suggested he try "Dog and Pony."
"When Barry asked me about Roger directing I said, 'Could I be that lucky?' " Elice laughed. "Roger is a wonderful director. He directed 'Peter and the Starcatcher.' He knows so much about the theater and is so good in the room. Actors love him.
"I think I'm hard-wired into musical theater in particular because it's still around … as humans, we respond to sitting in the dark with other people having a socializing experience where we all witness something that's happing before us that is probably not true, but for two hours of time, we are happy to believe it is true."
Note: Elice's "Jersey Boys," the movie, hits theaters in June.
—— If you go: "Dog and Pony" plays matinees and evenings through June 29 at Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park. Tickets from $35 at (619) 234-5623. TheOldGlobe.org
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Rashad Johnson succumbed to public pressure and posted a photo on Twitter Monday night of his infamous severed finger.
The Arizona Cardinals safety lost the tip of his middle finger while making a tackle during Sunday's loss to the New Orleans Saints. Naturally, when we hear about someone losing the tip of their finger, we all want to know what that looks like. Johnson noted that he had been receiving requests on Twitter all day to post a picture of the finger.
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to feel yourself as a soft mass held up by a hard structure. dig in. a sort of glue that tries to bounce the impacts away. just tubes.
to feel yourself as a soft mass held up by a hard structure. dig in. a sort of glue that tries to bounce the impacts away. just tubes.
So you might have seen me posting about getting through the first round of FloatArt London 2014.
Good news is I got through to the final and was invited to take part in the exhibition.
Bad news is I'm away when it's on, which means I can't do it.
Biggest. Bummer. Of. My. Life.
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Since I finished with university my life has changed in so many ways. I've moved away from Leeds, I live with my boyfriend, I finally have a day job and I've been working so hard to keep my practice going as well as applying for loads of art opportunities. My workspace has been dramatically downsized, now consisting of a small IKEA desk in our spare room. Obviously this isn't ideal, but it's allowed me to do some nitpicking about my practice and where I want it to go.
For a start, I was overwhelmingly compelled to draw. The idea for a series of small scale abstract drawn works started out with a tiny notebook and a felt tip pen, and continued simply as an indulgence in my sudden urge to draw and satisfy an interest in a combination of different kinds of surfaces like simple note paper, envelopes, graph paper, textured hand made paper, and board. That's all I've been posting lately and I hope I'll get an opportunity to exhibit them all together one day.
I've done other stuff like material tests with beeswax, stones and soap, and while they've been interesting, the conclusion for me is that I've not interested enough in exploring new materials yet. I've basically been on a high from the overwhelming success of the heat gun technique on my synthetic textiles ever since I discovered it, and I've been thinking about where to take it next.
Something that had stuck with me all through third year was something said by a recent graduate from my course when he came to give us a talk about life after college. Of course all the graduates stressed the importance of making work, whether it's 'good' or 'bad' is not the point- bad work is better than no work, and it's this that helps us towards the good work. But the real wisdom he gave that day was to do with WHAT to make- always have a motif. It's quite simple really- whenever you want to work but don't know what to do, have something you always go back to. This guy would always draw a cake, and sometimes the cake made it into paintings or sculptures, sometimes it didn't. But it was having something to start on.
For me, the knitted or crocheted tube form was responsible for so many breakthroughs, both conceptual (see Lippard's Eccentric Abstraction, and Briony Fer's Objects Beyond Objecthood) and sculptural. I used to joke that "when in doubt, knit a tube", but that's become less and less of a joke, and more of a mantra. What I'm trying to say is that experimentation is all well and good. It helps to expand thinking patterns, take my mind away from frustrations with what I actually want to do, but it's not everything. Creative journeys grow like trees, and much of the time the success comes from revisiting the junctions where you took the branch on the right, and seeing where the branch on the left takes you. That sounds horrible but it's sort of the only way I can think to put it..
Anyway, when in doubt, knit/crochet a tube. Or whatever your equivalent is.
When all else fails, #knit a tube
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Soap sculpture tests. They're completely dry now, but still shrinking and wrinkling, I'll take more pictures when they look completely shrivelled.
Not sure whether I'll pursue this soap thing, it's a good material but I still haven't finished with textiles and heat manipulation, got some more ideas for when I have space and a heat gun
I've been wondering how soap could work as a sculptural medium.
I was thinking mainly about how it stands as a material with its connotations of cleansing, strong associations with the body, transformations between dirty/corrupt/tarnished and clean/new/pure.
Also about its physicality- it comes as a solid, is used with the addition of water. Can be melted, moulded, and re-hardened. But if left to dry out, it can shrivel and crack and take on a different form.
As a material with such mutability and bodily associations, it seemed logical to start experimenting with it.
Today i melted some plain bar soap down, and sort of crammed/spread it into some acrylic hemispheres and cardboard tubes. They're in the freezer now.
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Today I received my application pack for A Letter in Mind, an open exhibition with an anonymous auction in aid of the National Brain Appeal.
I think it's an excellent idea, if you're in the UK you should definitely get yourself a pack, it's free and for charity! Click the picture or the link above