The Concerned Citizens of Tillery joined Nash Stop The Pipeline, the Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Live and other groups on a June 16 protest walk near the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
They targeted the section where Governor Roy Cooper’s father grew up in Elm Grove. Gov. Cooper was invited to attend the walk, but he did not show up. His father once wrote of Elm Grove, “I thank God that I have been privileged to live between the creeks with family, close friends, and with nature at its finest.”
The marchers took water from the Little Sapony Creek at the beginning of the march and mixed it with the waters from the Big Sapony Creek in a ceremony to draw symbolic attention to the impacts the pipeline project might have on the water systems in eastern North Carolina.
For more on the walk, see the coverage in The Rocky Mount Telegram and the Spring Hope Enterprise.
They targeted the section where Governor Roy Cooper’s father grew up in Elm Grove. Gov. Cooper was invited to attend the walk, but he did not show up. His father once wrote of Elm Grove, “I thank God that I have been privileged to live between the creeks with family, close friends, and with nature at its finest.”
The marchers took water from the Little Sapony Creek at the beginning of the march and mixed it with the waters from the Big Sapony Creek in a ceremony to draw symbolic attention to the impacts the pipeline project might have on the water systems in eastern North Carolina.
For more on the walk, see the coverage in The Rocky Mount Telegram and the Spring Hope Enterprise.
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