Source: John Downey, TRIAD BUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/22/19


A couple of heavyweights in environmental and N.C. racial justice circles have taken sides against part of the $7.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline project. S&P Global Market Intelligence reports that former Vice President Al Gore and civil rights leader Rev. William Barber II, who came to national attention leading the Moral Monday protests against the N.C. General Assembly in 2013, participated in a town hall meeting this week protesting a large pipeline compressor slated for construction in the African-American community of Union Hill.

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