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Due to high demand of natural gas, new pipeline construction being proposed in Northern Massachusetts

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Good news here, possibly 3,000 construction jobs could be created if Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. receives approval to construct a new gas pipeline, which will run from the NY/MA border, head north through Franklin and Worcester County, and end in Dracut MA. “TGP is looking to install a 36-inch line through Massachusetts to transport gas from traditional and developing supply regions, including the Marcellus and Utica shale deposits in the Northeast.”

Several towns have been notified and all seem receptive in seeing this project break ground and hopefully completed by 2018. I believe Pres. Obama mentioned a goal during his most recent SOTU about converting some of our vehicles to run on natural gas, so this project won’t be held up like Keystone XL and I doubt much resistance from anyone.

Keep fracking boys!

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  1. This poster has had a history of quoting things not matched by links, of citing as authorities people who turned out not to be authorities, and of misunderstanding statistical and quantitative reports. The reader is warned to take nothing literally that appears in the above without independent investigation.

  3. In this case, there does seem to be some substance to at least the bare bones of the story:

    – Boston Globe, November 5, 2013, “Utilities seek boost in region’s natural gas: Pipeline capacity jump could lower power costs” (emphasis mine):

    The agreements with Northeast Utilities and National Grid allow Spectra Energy Corp. of Houston to seek federal approval to expand the Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline in order to move abundant natural gas supplies from Pennsylvania and across the country. Meanwhile, another Houston firm, Kinder Morgan, is planning to add to another pipeline system that serves New England to bring even more natural gas here, where demand is growing.
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    National Grid and Northeast Utilities say they are interested in buying even more extra capacity. That could come from Kinder Morgan’s proposed “Northeast Expansion Project” that would add a new line to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline system, which also serves the Northeast and New England. The plan is still in the early stages and has not been submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee.

    – Daily Hampshire Gazette, January 29, 2014, “Tennessee Gas Pipeline plans project through Franklin County“:

    A natural gas pipeline is being proposed to run through several Franklin County towns.

    Residents in Shelburne and Montague have been contacted by representatives from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. with plans for a proposed 250-mile project in Massachusetts.

    – Worcester Telegram Gazette, January 30, 2014, “Major gas pipeline to make way through region“:

    A natural gas pipeline company is planning the construction of a line through northern Worcester County that may create thousands of jobs and carry natural gas to the eastern part of the state.

    Communities across northern Massachusetts have been contacted about the possibility of a gas pipeline being run through the state to Dracut.

    It appears that the contemplated project is real. I guess the fracking is ok with Massachusetts officials so long as it happens somewhere else.

  5. “The latest environmental review, the fifth released on the project since 2010 – acknowledges that development of tar sands in Alberta would create greenhouse gases, a State Department official said. But the report makes clear that other methods of transporting the oil – including rail, trucks and barges – would release more greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming than the pipeline.”

    Brownsberger was right all along.

    • Obama cannot go back on his word. Obama said he would approve Keystone “if it does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon”. It clearly does not, according to the State Dept.

      You don’t want Obama to break another promise, do you?

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