Environmental Groups Seek to Halt Building of Duke LNG Project

Friends of the Earth and Lumber Riverkeeper are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to order construction be halted on a liquefied natural gas project owned by Duke Energy’s Piedmont Natural Gas.

• Environmental groups said in letter that Duke lacks valid authorization under the Clean Water Act to build Robeson LNG facility in North Carolina
• “The Robeson LNG Pipeline Project stands on very shaky legal ground, and we intend to topple it,” Donna Chavis, senior fossil fuel campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said in a statement
• Construction of Robeson facility began in June 2019, according to Piedmont’s ...