Enbridge Reroutes NC Chatham Pipe to Follow Power Lines, Highways

Enbridge Gas North Carolina has picked its final route for the 28-mile, 12-inch natural gas pipeline it wants to build across Chatham County, NC, and it gives opponents some of what they asked for. Nearly half of the line (13 miles) will now run right next to existing power lines and highways instead of cutting new paths through woods and farms. The company filed the route on Friday, Oct. 30, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). We got our hands on the 183-page filing, and there's a lot more in there than the headline.

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