‘We Are Seen as Disposable’: Rural Residents Fight a Proposed Gas Pipeline

‘We Are Seen as Disposable’: Rural Residents Fight a Proposed Gas Pipeline

Research shows natural gas pipelines — and the public health risks they carry — are concentrated in low-income and minority areas where people suffer higher rates of poverty and physical disabilities and have fewer means to respond to crises.

‘We Are Seen as Disposable’: Rural Residents Fight a Proposed Gas Pipeline - Health Care Today

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys. But in recent months, Enbridge Gas North Carolina’s proposed plans for a natural gas pipeline have exposed how population growth, here and across [...]