Demonstrations were held in Cumberland, Nash, and Robeson counties. People voiced their concern about the potential impact it would have on water and the climate.
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Duke Energy and pipeline partner Dominion Power are proposing to build the $5 billion pipeline to bring natural gas from the northern fracking fields through Virginia and into North Carolina at Northampton County.
Duke Energy says the pipeline would have a positive economic impact on North Carolina.
Meanwhile, in North Dakota, officials have asked the Army Corps of Engineers to speed up its decision on whether to allow a company to proceed with laying a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The pipeline would lay under a Missouri River reservoir.
On Friday, the North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple said that protests against the pipeline in and around the state capital have created a "tremendously challenging situation."
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Demonstrators have protested in several locations this week, including at the State Capitol building, and the state-owned Bank of North Dakota.
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