Source: Devon J. Hall, Sr. FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 11/13/20


Pork giant Smithfield Foods and energy giant Dominion Energy, in a joint venture called Align RNG, are collaborating to sell gas from multiple, polluting, industrial-scale pits full of hog feces and urine in North Carolina. They are using a nicer-sounding word for this operation, “biogas.” The project, called the Grady Road Project, will harm streams and rivers in eastern North Carolina, pollute our air and impact the health of families in Duplin and Sampson counties and beyond.

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