A split 2-1 panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a case involving the proposed use of Yadkin River dams. The same dams once generated a long-running legal dispute involving state government. A company called Cube Yadkin Generation now owns the four dams and “hydroelectric generation facilities” near Badin. The company operates...
While voters in a number of North Carolina localities will have alcohol, tax increase, and bond referendums on their minds, citizens in the Forsyth County village of Tobaccoville will be deciding whether to recall their mayor. On Jan. 7, Tobaccoville Mayor Billy McHone resigned his office, but rescinded the offer before the Village Council could...
RALEIGH — Alcoa Power Generating Inc. scored a victory in federal court May 6 when U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle ruled that the state of North Carolina failed to prove that a 45-mile segment of the Yadkin River where Alcoa operates four hydroelectric dams was navigable for commerce in 1789. Alcoa continues to assert that the deeds it has to property all along the contested area are valid.
RALEIGH — Perdue’s apparent reversal would end a four-year battle over control of Alcoa's dams, the water flowing through them, and the hydroelectric power they generate. Backing the Clean Tech project also is consistent with Perdue’s efforts to make job creation and business recruitment a top priority in North Carolina.
BADIN — Gov. Bev Perdue and Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco were invited to, but did not attend, a ceremony announcing a $10 million investment in as many as 200 “green” jobs at the location of Alcoa’s former aluminum smelter.
RALEIGH — Only one of the three bills has Alcoa’s name on it, but the other two may as well, as they appear to be targeted at the company, said Alcoa spokesman Mike Bellwood.
RALEIGH — A majority of the commission members have gone on the record backing Gov. Bev Perdue’s request for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deny Alcoa’s license to continue operating four hydroelectric dams, enabling the state to take over the project and gain control of thousands of acres of adjacent property.
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue said she had no plans to either take action against those named in the elections board reports or prevent them from taking a role in a possible re-election campaign.
RALEIGH — Ethics watchdogs say UNC-TV’s conflicting roles as both a journalistic enterprise and an arm of state government led to an ethical muddle for lawyer/lobbyist Bruce Thompson. One of his lobbying clients is Stanly County, which spearheaded efforts by the state to take over Alcoa property via legislation, but he also was a member of UNC-TV’s board, which oversees the network’s programming and fundraising.
RALEIGH — The event was hosted by Mayor Charles Meeker, whose law firm Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP represents Stanly County; and City Councillor Nancy McFarlane, who formerly headed the North Carolina Water Rights Committee, a nonprofit group that has been lobbying the General Assembly to pass legislation allowing the state to seize Alcoa’s dams and set up an independent Yadkin River Trust to operate them.
RALEIGH — Gov. Beverly Perdue supports the creation of a new state agency to manage Alcoa’s hydroelectric facilities.
