Seven Directions of Service, a nonprofit that has fought pipeline building in the Piedmont in the past, held a meeting in Lexington where about 20 people showed up.
Concerns have been raised about the risks that Williams Companies’ Transcontinental Pipeline Southeast Supply Enhancement Project may bring.
The Fortune 500 business wants to build a pipeline that would go through Rockingham, Guilford, Forsyth, and Davidson counties and be 28.5 miles long.
Nancy Thomas, who lives in Wallburg and was there, just recently learned that she lives in the project’s buffer zone, which is the area that could be affected by the building of the pipeline.
“I thought, ‘What does that mean? What can we really do about this?'” “What effects will it have on the environment, the neighborhood, and the values of the homes?” Thomas asked.
Even small amounts of methane from leaks that are hard to find can make you sick, tired, have breathing problems, and even hurt your central nervous system.
A Williams representative said that the business works with landowners to keep disturbances to a minimum and to reduce the damage to the environment.