Yesterday in Charleston, 50 students and citizens showed up in Marion Square to protest the construction of a new coal-fired power plant by state-owned utility Santee Cooper.
Up in Asheville, where they’re a little closer to the mountains that are destroyed to make the plants possible, they’re willing to take it a step farther. Duke Energy has an 800-megawatt coal facility planned in Rutherford County. To protest it, six activists chained themselves to the construction machinery yesterday morning.
Read the Asheville Mountain Xpress’ report on it here, including video of the arrest.
