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  Power Play

  Posted on: Aug 01, 2017

  Turn right up there off the main road, go a little ways and take another right,” the clerk at the country store says. He adds with a grin, “I don’t think you’ll miss it.” His meaning is soon clear: The pine plantations that line both sides of River Road in the tiny rural community of Cofield suddenly give way to a massive industrial complex.

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  Atlantic Coast Pipeline supporters speak out on survey

  Posted on: May 22, 2017

  Proponents of the proposed 600-miles Atlantic Coast Pipeline spoke out on a conference call Monday, calling the project “critical” for West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

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  Atlantic Coast Pipeline in N.C.: Boon for some, burden for others

  Posted on: May 05, 2017

  Today, it’s sweeping fields dotted with soybean sprouts and green forests sloping over century-old homesteads. To a cluster of rural residents over an eight-county swath of North Carolina, the landscape translates to one word: home.

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