This story was originally published by Grist with the headline North Carolinians battle the $7.5-billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Dec 10, 2019.
This North Carolina community wants something worthwhile. It’s getting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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Residents living in the rural parts of Eastern North Carolina are no stranger to environmental hazards. Various industries have pinpointed the region — where the environmental justice movement was born — for projects, such as coal ash dumps, liquid fertilizer plants, and concentrated hog farms. Local grassroots activists have fought off many of these efforts. The latest threat? The proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which is slated to carry natural gas from West Virginia to near the North Carolina/South Carolina border.