Source: Rusty Jacobs, WUNC, 3/25/18


Crews are already cutting trees in Northampton and Robeson counties to make way for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the 600-mile-long delivery system that will carry natural gas from West Virginia, across Virginia, and through North Carolina. The pipeline will cut an eight-county, 200-mile-long path across the Tar Heel State with supporters and opponents all along the route. Mavis Exum Edmundson, 71, and her sister, Barbara Exum, 65, grew up on their family’s Wilson County farm in eastern North Carolina, amid fields of tobacco, corn, cotton and fruit trees.

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