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Company: Dune Energy Carolinas, LLC
Penalty: $2,500,000
Year: 2015
Date: June 25, 2015
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Duke Energy agreed to pay a $250,000 penalty and provide $2,250,000 for environmental projects in settlement of allegations a collapse in a stormwater pipe allowed at least 30,000 tons (by volume) of coal ash and ash pond water stored at its former coal-fired power plant facility to flow into the Dan River and Kerr Reservoir.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Virginia
Source of Data: (click here)
Notes: Penalty includes $2,250,000 funding of supplementary environmental projects.
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