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Davidson County residents press commissioners over Duke Energy NDAs and proposed gas plant
Summary
Residents used the board—orum to press for transparency after staff or economic-development partners signed nondisclosure agreements with Duke Energy and to urge commissioners to oppose a proposed natural-gas plant on the Yadkin River; the board adopted a policy requiring immediate notice when an NDA is signed.
Dozens of Davidson County residents urged the Board of Commissioners on May 11 to reveal the terms of nondisclosure agreements with Duke Energy and to block any large gas-fired power plant they say could harm local water, air and farmland.
Public commenters repeatedly cited NDAs as a barrier to transparency. "This county should not be doing this for anything," Dawn Hash said during the public-comment period, arguing a nondisclosure would conceal "material facts" and depress property values. Lee Fowler warned of a "1,360-megawatt, $2,500,000,000" plant and said the proposal could withdraw "up to 600,000 gallons of water" a day from the Yadkin River,…
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