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Published: 2012-10-01 19:34:00
Updated: 2012-10-02 19:13:25

Posted: October 1, 2012
Updated: October 2, 2012

Court rules for Alcoa over hydro-electric dams

Alcoa moves to gain support for dam operation

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Alcoa moves to gain support for dam operation
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Raleigh, N.C. — One of the world's largest producers of aluminum will be able to submit a new request for certification so that it can operate four dams along the Yadkin River.

Alcoa Inc. originally received its certification in May 2008 for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, but the state revoked it in 2010 after it said the company misled state officials when it failed to disclose details on the project's ability to meet the state's water quality standards.

Last month, Alcoa Inc., filed a motion for an administrative law judge in Winston-Salem to dismiss without prejudice its appeal concerning water quality certification.

The dismissal opens the gate for the company to file for new certification to obtain a 50-year license for the project.

The dams, along the Yadkin River, which generated nearly $8 million in 2010, once provided power for Alcoa’s aluminum plant in the area, but that facility closed in 2007.

The electricity is now sold on the open market.

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Another act of communisim by our great state - old Bev learned well from your socialist president!
Americanfirst
October 2, 2012 5:53 p.m.
So how about those REPUBLICANS who wanted the state to take over the dams? They should be impeached, right wingers?
Click to view my profile geosol
October 2, 2012 4:35 p.m.
To quote Obama, Alcoa didn't build those dams so Bev can seize them.
ConservativeVoter
October 2, 2012 4:26 p.m.
This was a socialist property grab by Bev to take those dams from Alcoa.

Much like our socialist President and his seizing of Chrysler and GM in 2009.

If I was Alcoa and I was forced to give up the dams, I would blow them up and give the rubble to the state.
ConservativeVoter
October 2, 2012 4:24 p.m.
They have at times almost drained High Rock lake just to keep their dam flowing. People with homes and businesses along the lake were left with docks that had no water underneath them and boats that were lying in the mud on the floor of the lake. I believe they lost their last contract with the state because they refused to agree to minimum lake levels.
NotFromHere
October 2, 2012 3:54 p.m.
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