ROCKY MOUNT, Va. (AP) – Carolyn and Ian Reilly and their children moved to Virginia in 2010 to farm 58 acres. Then a year ago, they learned a natural gas pipeline would slice through their farm and their lives took another turn – to activism against the plan. They’ve shooed pipeline surveyors from their pastures, made anti-pipeline signs for protests and pressured officials. From New England to North Carolina, scattered insurgencies have formed in opposition to a spider web of pipelines up and down the Eastern Seaboard as the nation’s energy industry seeks to move pent-up supplies from deposits of natural gas being drilled in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. But energy companies are responding that natural gas is abundant, cheaper and cleaner than coal while pipelines will create jobs and spur development.
