Source: WUNC, 12/14/21

In this two-part series "The Wood Energy Dilemma," reporters from WFAE and WUNC visit communities feeding the world’s appetite for wood energy.

On a bright fall morning, a never-ending stream of large trucks — many filled with logs — enter and exit a wood pellet facility in rural Sampson County. The vehicles pass a checkpoint, then disappear behind a chain-link fence protecting bulky equipment that emits a constant humming and grinding sound. This plant is run by Enviva, the world's largest producer of industrial wood pellets. It's one of the company's four facilities in North Carolina.

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