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Align RNG is a partnership between Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy. The new company plans to build a 30-mile pipeline network among 19 farms in Duplin and Sampson counties that will install or convert one lagoon to a covered gas capture system. The farms will then ship methane generated by the hog waste to a central processing plant along N.C. Highway 24 in Turkey. From there, the Align RNG plant will upgrade the gas and inject it into the Piedmont natural gas line, where it will be purchased from Piedmont by Duke Energy.
However, Align RNG has intentionally not disclosed the full list of the farms, nor their locations, to the public or DEQ. The four farms that plan to participate in the Align RNG project M&M Waters, Benson, Kilpatrick Farm 1, 2, 4 and 5/Merritt Farm and Farm 2037/2038 are corporately owned and operated by Smithfield.
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The Biden administration has set forth its slate of nominees for several key energy and environmental positions. The nominees include veteran regulators, former elected officials and statesmen, among others. Highlighted below are a few of the more consequential nominees.
Michael Regan, Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has served as secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) for Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC). He played an important leadership role on the North Carolina Clean Energy Plan, which is designed to slash greenhouse gas pollution from the electricity sector to 70 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, foster energy affordability and accelerate clean energy innovation.
The Cape Fear River the Wilmington area’s primary source of drinking water has been polluted with toxic chemicals known as PFAS for at least 30 year. Traditional water-treatment systems were unable to filter out the chemicals. (Port City Daily photo / CFPUA)
WILMINGTON Make no mistake: Geoff Gisler is not pleased that Chemours recently violated a judge’s order to keep toxic chemicals out of the Cape Fear River.
Gisler, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), won’t be satisfied until the substances known as PFAS including Genx are no longer escaping from the Chemours plant near Fayetteville. Compared to several years ago, when there was little being done to stop high levels of PFAS from flowing into the river, Gisler believes the recent violations are a good problem to have.