Apr 2, 2012
Occupying Duke Energy
March 31, 2012:
Today a number of groups concerned with the way Duke Energy continues to pollute our planet, protested at ALEC member Duke Energy’s Offices at 550 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 (in case you feel compelled to send Jim Rogers a written message). It was truly inspiring to be with a group of distinct organizations working together toward a common goal.
This post will try to share today’s events with you. As the speeches given by many today are not on the web, we will print each of them in subsequent posts.
The Event was co-Sponsored by:
350.org, Occupy Charlotte, 
Action NC, Canary Coalition,
Clean Air Carolina, DemocracyNC,
Green Party-Charlotte Chapter,
Greenpeace USA,
NAACP-Charlotte Chapter,
NC WARN, SAFE Carolinas, & More!
To read more of this article about the Occupation of Duke Energy, please click here
Apr 02, 2012 @ 13:40:26
Ms. Embrey, the comment about Duke Energy not allowing you to place the box of petitions on its property is in accurate. Duke Energy does not own the property that houses its headquarters. The property is owned and developed by Wells Fargo. Duke energy is simply a tenant that has the naming rights to the building.
[Note from the admin: since the source of things is very important, as stated by this comment with its claim that Wells Fargo owns the property and therefore refused the petitions, let's be transparent about exactly WHERE this comment came from.
If you look up the ip for this comment, you find the following info:
http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-208-62-199-64-1/pft
http://whois.domaintools.com/208.62.199.66
http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip
It gives the name of the AT&T customer who owns that wireless network and the address of the property at which it is installed.
Customer: Childress Klein Properties - CLT (C02478604)
Registration Date: 2010-04-23
301 S College St #2800
Charlotte, NC 28202
^anyone recognize this address? I thought so.
That's because this is also the address for the Wells Fargo building (the Duke Energy Building that they lease from Wells Fargo) and the realty company that leases them the property.]
Apr 02, 2012 @ 19:47:20
Much thanks to our admin. for pointing out where the complaint from energyled came from.
Energyled seems to have an inability to determine what Ms. Embrey said on the taped interview, and what I wrote underneath.
As there are other tenants in the building, and as it is owned by Wells Fargo, my comment was in error about the building being Duke’s Property.
But in the end it still comes down to Duke Energy’s tone deaf response to Ms. Embrey and the demonstrators’ request, ignoring their request to simply get the box of signatures to Jim Rogers. I don’t know if there was anyone at the D.E. office working on a Saturday afternoon. But when contacted by security, someone with some media sense, or who wanted to give the impression they cared, would have had security take the carton and do whatever with it once the protesters were out of sight. Instead, they steadfastly refused to accept it, and thus convey the distinct impression that they just did not care. That, is a sign of a poorly managed company. I hope that they are writing down the value of “goodwill” on their balance sheet.
When people believe in what they are doing, all that dissing them and giving them time to go back and reorganize will accomplish, is not likely to be any more to Duke Energy’s liking or help their reputation one iota.