Energy Prospectus

Trump to sign order seeking to clear gas pipeline hurdles by Reuters

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Wednesday said the Trump administration would soon issue an executive order that would open the door for more natural gas pipelines and exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG. The administration, which is pushing a policy it calls energy dominance, has been considering an order that would push back against states, including New York, that have blocked interstate natural gas pipelines. Kudlow said the executive order would open the way for pipelines and LNG at an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor news outlet. New York has blocked pipelines that would take natural gas from Pennsylvania to New England, which means the region sometimes needs to import LNG. Early last year, a tanker carrying LNG from a project in Russia’s Arctic arrived in Boston Harbor to satisfy demand during a cold snap.
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Why are the politicians running New York so dumb? A lot of people in the state still burn oil or wood chips for space heating, which is ten times worse for air quality than natural gas. Plus, the Marcellus Shale extends up into New York and developing those reserves would create jobs and help the state's finances.

A need for natural gas . Providence Journal . Opinion.

"Natural gas is a complement to, and not an enemy of, sound environmental planning."

America’s amazing natural gas boom of the past decade, produced largely by innovative hydraulic fracturing techniques — known colloquially as “fracking” — could not have come at a better time. It is urgent that the United States, like the rest of the world, reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Yet at the same time, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, while expanding, are not yet efficient and reliable enough to supply adequate power to an industrialized and prosperous country of 330 million. Natural gas, which pollutes the atmosphere far less than burning coal or oil, is widely regarded as a “bridge fuel” that can take us from an era of dirtier fossil fuels to a future of cleaner power, still being invented and refined. It is unfortunate, though, that many residents of New England have been left out of the boom that much of the rest of the country is enjoying. The reason for the moratoria is simple: New England’s pipeline infrastructure is woefully inadequate, judged by experts to be the nation’s worst. (They’re a big reason that New Englanders pay far more for energy than other Americans.) So-called environmental activists and the politicians they control have repeatedly stymied attempts to build new pipelines.

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