North Carolina pipeline opponents see Gov. Cooper as last ‘line of defense’

Southeast Energy News: Little Sapony Creek and Sapony Creek in rural Nash County are among more than 300 rivers, streams and wetlands in eastern North Carolina in the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Like many other waters the 36-inch wide pipe could intersect, their names correspond to one of the many Native American tribes in the region, the Haliwa-Saponi, who have subsisted in part on local waterways for millennia.

The streams also have another significance: Roy Cooper, Jr., the late father of Gov. Roy Cooper III, grew up fishing and catching tadpoles in them, and the elder Cooper gave them top billing in Between the Creeks, a memoir from his Depression-era childhood.

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