DUKE POWER BREAKS GROUND ON $500 MILLION EMISSIONS SCRUBBER.

Industrial Environment,  July, 2005  

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William G. Ross, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, joined leaders from Duke Power and Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford and Rockingham counties in breaking ground on a project that will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by approximately 95 percent at Belews Creek Steam Station.

The project is expected to cost approximately $500 million and is the second of a series of four sulfur dioxide "scrubbers" Duke Power is installing on its coal-fired power plants in North Carolina. The projects stem from the passage of the state's 2002 ...

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