Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Living with natural gas pipelines: Appalachian landowners describe fear, anxiety and loss

  • Written by Erin Brock Carlson, Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Editing, West Virginia University
Living with natural gas pipelines: Appalachian landowners describe fear, anxiety and lossPipeline construction cuts through forests and farms in Appalachia.Provided by Erin Brock Carlson, CC BY-SA

More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region.

Many of these lines were built in just the past five years to carry natural gas from the...

Read more: Living with natural gas pipelines: Appalachian landowners describe fear, anxiety and loss

Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more