[thackney]

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[meatloaf]

I wonder how many coal fired power plants will be shout down by the EPA in New England. Elsewhere, utilities are planning to replace the shuttered coal plants with new NG fueled plants. Doesn’t appear to be a viable strategy in New England.

[gr8eman]

The short answer is not enough pipelines

Oh...I thought the short answer was "liberals"!

[thackney]

Natural Gas Pipelines in the Northeast Region

Twenty interstate natural gas pipeline systems operate within the Northeast Region (Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and West Virginia). These interstate pipelines deliver natural gas to several intrastate natural gas pipelines and at least 50 local distribution companies in the region. In addition, they also serve large industrial concerns and, increasingly, natural gas fired electric power generation facilities.

The natural gas pipeline and local distribution companies serving the Northeast have access to supplies from several major domestic natural gas producing areas and from Canada. Domestic natural gas flows into the region from the Southeast into Virginia and West Virginia, and from the Midwest into West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Canadian imports come into the region principally through New York, Maine, and New Hampshire.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies also enter the region through import terminals located in Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Brunswick, Canada.

More at:
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/northeast.html

[Steely Tom]

Eastern Mass has plenty of natural gas. I have seen, with my own eyes, a restaurant with an outdoor gas fireplace, in operation, in winter.

The reason (I suspect) might have something to do with the gigantic LNG tanks located in South Boston.

Boston is the site of one of the oldest LNG terminals in the United States. It was built in the mid-70s.

[lgjhn23]

Let em freeze.
They don’t deserve oil/gas/electricity...let em live in the stone age.

[JimRed]

The problem is that pipeline operators want long-term contracts in place before they spend the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to build a new pipeline or expand an existing one.

IOW, they have good business sense.