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Are 'Green' Corporate Rankings a Scam?
Rankings, ratings and scorecards are often only vehicles for environmental groups to draw attention to their cause (as with Greenpeace), and more often than not they are given legitimacy – even when...
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Duke Energy Can Burn Forests for ‘Green’ Credits
It’s (once again) the law of unintended consequences for Green groups: In order to fulfill a 2007 state mandate that they derive 12.5 percent of electricity from so-called “renewable” sources, a North...
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Duke - Progress Merger Provides Shakedown Opportunity for Activists
It seemed the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy into the nation’s largest (by several measures) utility would sail through by the end of this year, but several activists in North Carolina have...
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Duke Energy Juggernaut Won't Stop Shakedown Artists
If it wasn’t already obvious, then a report in Friday’s Raleigh News & Observer about the merger hearings between Duke Energy and Progress Energy into the nation’s largest utility makes it clear:...
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FERC Says Merger Would Further Entrench Duke Energy Monopoly
The merger hearings for Duke Energy and Progress Energy before the North Carolina Utilities Commission were supposed to be the last major hurdle for the deal to be approved, but now the concerns of a...
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Duke’s Rogers: Wind Subsidies Yield Big Profits
Say what you want about Duke Energy and the often-injudicious CEO James Rogers, but at least he is focused on his company’s profitability and the interests of shareholders.Last week he composed an...
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Duke Energy Gouges Ratepayers, Taxpayers
Rather than big policies like cap-and-trade and federal tax credits, sometimes it’s the little ways that corporations snooker taxpayers and their own customers that really annoy the masses.As has been...
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Edwardsport Scandal Dogs Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
The Indianapolis Colts’ loss of future Hall-of-Fame quarterback Peyton Manning (neck surgeries) has led to a winless (0-7) season so far, which places the team in the lead for the No. 1 overall pick in...
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Duke Energy Caves In to Pressure Groups’ Demands
In yet another ploy to overcome opposition to their merger, Duke Energy and Progress Energy agreed with environmental groups last week to a few million more dollars in payoffs for “clean” energy...
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FERC Flunks Duke Energy-Progress Energy Merger Proposal, Again
Fresh from its latest payoff of environoia groups in exchange for their support of their merger, Duke Energy and Progress Energy must return to the drawing board after the second rejection of their...
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Jim Rogers's Power Grab Underscores Politicization of Duke Energy
After a lengthy process that overcame a demanding review at the North Carolina Utilities Commission and two rejections by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Duke Energy won approval to merge...
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Jim Rogers and Duke Energy Face Music Over Merger Power Grab
The tempest that followed the “boardroom coup” after Duke Energy’s merger with Progress Energy, in which former Progress CEO Bill Johnson was dismissed in favor of Duke CEO James Rogers, has only...
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Former Temp CEO Rebuts Allegations of Duke Energy's Jim Rogers
As the North Carolina Utilities Commission tries to make sense of the farcical events that surround its approval of the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy into the largest public electricity...
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Jim Rogers to Leave Duke Energy After Merger Fiasco
The long, crony-capitalizing, rent-seeking reign of CEO James Rogers at Duke Energy looks like it will come to an end – in a year, but possibly sooner.The departure follows the saga that was the merger...
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Will Departing Duke CEO Rogers Officially Join the Obama Team?
Now that he’s been forced out as chairman and CEO of Duke Energy, James Rogers is apparently looking for something else to do, and may now be more receptive to the idea of becoming President Obama’s...
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