Protesters from Sylva, Asheville arrested outside Governor’s Mansion

Jason Sandford

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Story from the Raleigh News & Observer:

RALEIGH — Six environmental activists were arrested Saturday in a display of civil disobedience at the Governor’s Mansion. They were protesting Duke Energy’s controversial plan to build the coal-fired Cliffside power unit in Rutherford County.

State Capitol Police charged each of the six with trespass, said Pete MacDowell, one of the event’s organizers.

MacDowell identified those arrested as: Dick Paddock of Chapel Hill; Bruce Avram Friedman of Sylva; Jean Larson of Asheville, Keval Kaur Khalsa of Durham; John Allen, a UNC-Chapel Hill student from Winston-Salem, and Jim Warren of Efland.