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Thursday, August 2, 2012
News Greenpeace launches 'airship' to protest Duke Energy
Posted By Ryan Pitkin on Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Greenpeace organizers launched what they're calling an “airship” (what you would call a blimp) from Veteran's Park early Thursday morning, giving rush hour commuters a glimpse of a 135-foot-long message to Duke Energy that read, "Duke Don’t Raise Rates for Dirty Energy." The airship has been touring North Carolina since Wednesday, July 25, to coincide with a recent report released by Greenpeace that highlights the positive environmental and economic impacts that would come from Duke relying solely on renewable-energy sources.
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