Atlantic Coast Pipeline Protestors Deliver Eviction Notice to Duke Energy CEO’s Home

On May 4, Activists decided to send a personal message to Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good by holding a demo outside her home in Charlotte, NC. Members of Beyond Extreme Energy and others successfully delivered an eviction notice to her husband who was home at the time which read, “This notice is to inform you that employees of Dhoyle Land Services will soon be surveying your property at 2327 Vernon Drive in preparation for a pipeline which Duke Energy and Dominion Resources are proposing to install on your property. We are sorry if this in any way inconveniences you. But as you know, even though studies show the gas is not needed, pipelines like this are necessary to satisfy the greed of Duke Energy’s executives and shareholders for increased profits.”

May 4 also happened to be the day of Duke Energy’s annual shareholder meeting, which was held in cyberspace rather than at Duke headquarters, in what activists believe was a weak attempt to avoid protests over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline as well has Duke’s continued resistance to cleaning up their toxic coal ash ponds.

If built, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would steal land from hundreds of property owners through eminent domain while destroying thousands of acres of forests, farmlands, and wetlands. Additionally the added emissions from the gas it will bring to market would be the equivalent of building 20 new coal plants or adding 14 million cars to the road. There are also concerns that the pipeline will destroy sites sacred to the Lumbee and Tuscarora peoples.