Yadkin Riverkeeper submits request for a Declaratory Ruling by the North Carolina Secretary of Administration to determine the true ownership of the Yadkin River bed in Stanly County in order to protect the State’s interests from Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. (Alcoa).
Read moreAlcoa understands that North Carolina is sitting on a gold mine but thinks that we are not intelligent enough to realize it. The Yadkin River can deliver billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to our state - but we need to regain control of it from Alcoa. Its value lies not only in its capacity to generate clean hydro-electricity but also in its ability to leverage other renewable energy sources to meet the future needs of a growing population.
Read moreMajority Of Voters Believe Alcoa Should Not Be Granted a New Federal License To Control Part Of The Yadkin River for the Next 50 Years
Read moreThe Uwharrie Regional Resources Commission approved a motion to request the Environmental Protection Agency and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources conduct an ecological risk assessment of the Yadkin River basin to determine whether PCBs in the water are a human health risk.
Read moreYadkin Riverkeeper today announced that the group has issued a letter of intent to bring a lawsuit under the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) to sue the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) for the company’s unlawful discharge of lethal contaminants at the Badin Works facility in Badin, NC.
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Robert “Bobby” F. Kennedy Jr. joined Yadkin Riverkeeper in a tour at Badin Lake near areas of Alcoa Power Generating Inc.’s Badin Works facility, to learn more about water contamination in that area.
Read moreInexpensive energy — like hydro-electricity — is the key to the economic future. Energy equals jobs. That is why the state reclaiming its water rights to the Yadkin River from Alcoa Corp. equals jobs.
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The “battle for the Yadkin”, as some have called it, has emerged as one of the Charlotte region’s most fascinating public policy debates in years. At stake are four dams and reservoirs originally built to supply electricity for an aluminum smelting plant operated by Alcoa for over seventy-five years in the Stanly County town of Badin. With the smelting plant now closed, Alcoa has continued operating the dams through a subsidiary, Alcoa Power Generating Inc. (APGI), under a 50-year license issued by the United States government in 1957.
Read moreAlcoa and North Carolina officials are fighting over who will control the dams originally built to supply electricity to a now-closed aluminum plant that once employed hundreds in Badin.
Read moreLegislation calls for study of contamination and cleanup efforts at Alcoa's closed aluminum smelter in Stanly County.
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