On the news side, the N&O’s Lynn Bonner reports on the controversy revolving around the Perdue administration’s attempted hostile takeover of hydroelectric dams owned by Alcoa.
See Don Carrington’s coverage of the Alcoa/Yadkin River Trust dispute here. Plus, the transcript of an interview with me is here.
Tuesday, the Yadkin Riverkeeper, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, is bringing in noted water policy expert Erin Brockovich to brief lawmakers in Raleigh and an audience at Wake Forest University on, I dunno, chasing ambulances. Or showing cleavage.
Why she was chosen is anyone’s guess, although her sponsors in Raleigh include school-district-suing Mayor Charles Meeker, along with city councilwoman and former-head-of-the-secretive-fake-grass-roots Water Rights Committee Nancy McFarlane.
Again, why Erin Brockovich is expected to have any special expertise on hydroelectric power generation or water flows from eastern rivers is anyone’s guess. Wonder how many star-stuck lawmakers will ask where Julia Roberts is.
