ASHEVILLE, NC (FOX Carolina) - Buncombe County Emergency Management crews were called to a local power plant Monday morning during a protest by environmentalists.
Greenpeace activists said they were protesting "the destruction and pollution caused by coal at the Progress Asheville Power Station" Monday morning.
According to Greenpeace, protestors secured themselves to the coal loader and conveyors at the Progress Energy facility in Arden. SLIDESHOW: Greenpeace protests at power plant
"This plant runs on destroyed mountains, it spews out air pollution, it causes climate change and it poisons the water and the earth," said Greenpeace climate campaigner and activist Robert Gardner. "If Duke merges with Progress, the new owners have a responsibility to the people of North Carolina to move to clean energy."
Employees at the power station said they do not have media people on site to speak about the protestors.
Progress Energy tweeted about the protests, saying protestors attached themselves to plant equipment, including the smokestacks.
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