In Chatham County, North Carolina, an 85-year-old widow said a proposed natural gas pipeline has already complicated her effort to sell part of her property, money she hoped to use to care for herself and her adult son with a disability.
Her story is just one of many as a dispute over Enbridge Gas North Carolina’s planned pipeline has become a flashpoint in one of the country’s fastest-growing states, pitting development in wealthier parts of the county against rural residents living along the proposed route.
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According to KFF Health News, Enbridge Gas North Carolina said that in order to meet rising gas demand in Chatham and neighboring Lee County, the company must build a 12-inch pipeline running between Moncure and Siler City.
For Dorasue Burns Christian, a retired dental hygienist, that would cut through a 22-acre farm where she has lived for half a century…