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FERC issues ‘historic’ overhaul of pipeline approvals
Energy Wire ^ | By Miranda Willson | 02/18/2022 07:24 AM EST | By Miranda Willson | 02/18/2022 07:24 AM EST

Posted on 02/19/2022 5:21:29 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued sweeping new guidance yesterday for natural gas projects, including a first-ever climate change threshold, upending decades of precedent for how major energy infrastructure is approved.

FERC updated a 23-year-old policy for assessing proposed natural gas pipelines, adding new considerations for landowners, environmental justice communities and other factors. In a separate but related decision, the commission also laid out a framework for evaluating projects’ greenhouse gas emissions.

The commission’s three Democratic members approved both policies, while the two Republicans on the panel opposed them.

(Excerpt) Read more at eenews.net ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbon; chaos; climatechange; ferc
The War on Energy continues, resulting in more inflation and resultant higher prices for citizens.

What happened to the "separation of church and state" principle? Warmists have inserted their religion into public policy.

1 posted on 02/19/2022 5:21:29 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Anti fossil fuel jihadists.


2 posted on 02/19/2022 5:23:07 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Fifteen days to slow the curve! Just fifteen days!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Why don’t they just come out and say “we will never approve another pipeline”?


3 posted on 02/19/2022 5:24:12 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They just did.


4 posted on 02/19/2022 5:54:43 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Insanity. These sorts of policies will result in much pain and suffering by the poor.

I wish I’d bookmarked it, but last Fall I saw a German PSA that was basically how to get by in your freezing apartment without any heat. These people are evil.


5 posted on 02/19/2022 5:57:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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We’ll be suffering in years to come even if this madness is removed in 3 or 4 years.


6 posted on 02/19/2022 6:53:06 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Why don’t they just come out and say “we will never approve another pipeline”?

That's pretty much the way I see it too.

7 posted on 02/19/2022 7:06:53 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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