Waiting to exhale: Controversial wood pellet plant would burden Lumberton with more pollution
Story Date: 4/28/2020

  Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 4/27/20


Active Energy Renewable Power would bring a handful of jobs but at what environmental cost to Robeson County? The picnic tables at Alamac Community Park are ideal for watching log trucks yaw into the entrance of an old textile factory in Lumberton. The swings, slide and basketball court command a view of the grim and monolithic building, flanked by a dilapidated guard shack and in back, a smoke stack that pokes a hole in the sky.

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