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Communities of Color in Eastern North Carolina Want Wood Pellet Byproducts Out of Their NeighborhoodsâAnd Their Lungs
Belinda Joyner describes her home of Northampton County as a dumping ground for undesirable usesâhog farms, landfills. Northampton was also slated to host the Atlantic Coast Pipelineâs compressor station before the project was canceled.Â
When Joyner stood at a podium in the North Carolina legislative building on Wednesday, she was most concerned about wood pellet facilities.Â
âWe have other states that have taken into consideration the cumulative impact, the health impact, on these communities and theyâre saying no to these companies that are coming,â Joyner said. âYou know what? North Carolina has become a cesspool, because everything that everyone else doesnât want, we donât have the laws to protect us.âÂ
Coroner rules no foul play in the disappearance of Jayden Penno-Tompsett
The 22-year-old mysteriously disappeared while on a drug-fuelled road trip
He was travelling with a friend from Newcastle to Queensland at the end of 2017
His family fear he was murdered but an inquest ruled he perished in the heat
Locals have called the stretch of road where he disappeared highway of death
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