We’ve covered tonight’s Danville City Council closed session meeting in the previous article. Let’s do a BreakDown on it…
Let’s get a quick Big Board…
- If this had been a regular “here’s how this Duke Energy settlement thing is going” type of meeting, it would have been over in less than an hour.
- Since council has another closed session with legal counsel scheduled next Thursday before the regular meeting, I’m betting that’s going to be the deal day.
- We’ll know if Duke Energy’s representatives are at that council meeting. There’s only three items on that meeting’s agenda so it would be a very quick meeting. We’ll be watching for that.
- I questioned the coal ash attorneys as they left. I got mostly the “We can’t comment on pending potential litigation”, as expected. When I asked “Would you say that Duke Energy is being cooperative in your negotiations?”, the lead attorney said “I believe that they want to be.”
- I didn’t see many smiling happy faces coming out of the meeting. The meeting lasted a long time. I’m speculating that they were told that this wouldn’t be a Cash Jackpot coming. That makes sense because Duke Energy has pretty much done everything that they required to do now. Any “pain & suffering” types of money will probably be in the form of “Duke Energy Loves Danville” projects like beautiful new River district signs and um.. how about $500,000 to make Abreu/Grogan Park bigger and prettier? Hey, they’ve already done that.
- As I said before, neither party wants this to go to a trial. Duke Energy is smart. Duke Energy has good lawyers. Make the goodwill payments to make people happy and they’ll never be seen back in Danville again.
That’s a quick BreakDown. More coming up on SouthsideCentral!
what about the people wh o live in the city how do we know our water is safe now ? how much of the money will we get ?.
The water is perfectly safe and always has been perfectly safe. Citizens will get nothing, because they have no damages. Citizens will get a nice new Abreu/Grogan park out of the deal.
That not what dr miller said. He said the water has metals in it and the long term effect is unknown. Read his comment on his extortion article on the 500,000 park money.
He also said duke had not paid nearly enough.
The water has always been in that condition and so has pretty much all river water everywhere. You’re talking about parts per billion. The treated drinking water is and has always been perfectly safe to drink.
The short-term effects were almost nothing. The wildass predictions from the environmentalists never were close to coming true. No fish kills, no dead turtles, no “arsenic blisters”. All of that was horsecrap.
Not to mention the disappearing blue herons that keep getting brought up. They supposedly went away the day of the spill never to return. Funny thing though, I see at least 2 every time I’m on the trail which is 3 or 4 times a week.
Riverwater makes good koolaid, and you seem to have had a lot. You believe everything your government tells you?
Once again, I remind you of what dr miller says. Of course he is government too.
You have a lot of conspiracy theories in your head. But you’re fun.
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Miller was wrong on uranium mining also. Made several untrue statements. Here he goes again. For a man of science he sure ignores scientific facts.