Source: WRAL, 11/18/20


A joint venture between pork producer Smithfield and Dominion Energy would create an underground 30-mile pipeline in Eastern North Carolina carrying methane gas from hog farms to a facility in Duplin County. Align RNG, the company formed by the two giants, says the project will reduce greenhouse gases. According to the company, the biogas processing facility will collect methane gas from 19 hog farms in the area through underground pipelines and convert the gas into electricity that will heat more than 3,000 homes and businesses.

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