http://www.digtriad.com/includes/tools/print.aspx?storyid=97942

Duke Energy says it won't build coal-fired plants unless the carbon sequestration is facilitated.

Carbon-sequestration is a developing technology that Rogers said could be implemented at coal gasification power plants in the next 15 years but won't work with North Carolina's underground rock formations. He said Duke may seek coal-fired plants in the region if scientists someday develop unforeseen technologies to deal with carbon emissions here.

Rogers said the company considered piping carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired plants in North Carolina and South Carolina to places like Tennessee and Kentucky, where it could be more easily sequestered underground.

Digtriad.com; February 13, 2008

Submitted by R. Campbell