"Williams Cos. went online to seek local backing for its Transco expansion project, but the effort may have backfired."
"WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — By the time Dan Besse clicked open the email message from “sexdemon@mocospace.com,” he knew something strange was going on with the campaign to support a local gas pipeline expansion.
The message urged Forsyth County’s elected commissioners to support a proposal to lay 24 miles of new pipe alongside the existing Transcontinental pipeline in the area.
Hundreds more near-identical messages flooded in to Besse and the other six members of the Board of Commissioners, clogging inboxes and junk folders. But according to two commissioners, when they responded to the messages, their constituents said they hadn’t sent the emails and didn’t know what the commissioners were talking about.
If the barrage was meant to build goodwill for Williams Cos.’ Transco project, Besse said, it backfired."
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