Posted on 10/19/2026 6:17:38 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
The Trump administration is putting up to $42 million in federal funding behind efforts to revive a long-stalled natural gas pipeline connecting Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale with energy markets in New York and the Northeast.
The Department of Energy announced Monday that the funding, provided under Title III of the Defense Production Act, will support permitting and pre-construction work on the proposed Constitution Pipeline as the administration seeks to expand energy infrastructure and lower regional energy costs.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told FOX Business on Monday that the funding would help advance environmental and permitting work needed before construction can begin.
"The answer to high prices is more supply to push prices down," Wright said. "The answer to get to the ragged edge of blackouts is more electric generation, more energy for home heating as well."
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I hope the people kept their gas stoves and furnaces.
Somewhere a judge is waking to the smell of an organic decaf latte with soy milk.
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Good for Trump - good for the country.
It won’t help him win any New England votes. I don’t get it. Perhaps it’s showing those weenies who’s boss. Good for effect.
So we are going to spend 42 million to save these people from their own idiocy
Well, not quite as much but the Marcellus does cross the state line near Elmira.
the funding would help advance environmental and permitting work needed before construction can begin.
That’s Marcellus Wallace shale.
NYS has sooooo much natural gas available...but Hochul has put the kabosh on using it. Dumb...
—”So we are going to spend 42 million to save these people from their own idiocy”
NO,no,no. This pipeline project has been dead for over ten years. Not even one shovel of earth has been moved.
For only $42M, you get low-budget performance politics, and you are a star player, paying for it and getting screwed.
And if you know the right people, you could get a temporary government job as a coat holder.
They have to borrow the $42M, and you pay interest until the twelfth of Never; and that is a long time.
WAIT UNTIL HE WAKES UP TO A VERY COLD HOUSE.
Had to look it up. Well, there you have it.
If all had gone according to plan, the Constitution pipeline would be carrying fracked gas 124 miles from the shale gas fields of Pennsylvania through streams, wetlands, and backyards across the Southern Tier of New York until west of Albany. There it would join two existing pipelines, one that extends into New England and the other to the Ontario border as part of a vast network that moves fracked gas throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. For a while, everything unfolded as expected. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project in 2014, the U.S. was in the midst of a fracking boom that would make it the world’s largest producer of natural gas and crude oil... Yet the developers did not anticipate landowners, neighborhood residents, community leaders, and anti-fracking activists statewide forging a coalition to kill the pipeline. In a landmark defeat, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation denied the project’s water-quality certificate in 2016, leading Williams to abandon it in early 2020.
The defeat of the Constitution pipeline marked the start of an uncertain era for interstate pipelines in New York and beyond. The company behind the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, which would have carried shale gas through New York into New England, abandoned the project just days before the state rejected the Constitution pipeline. In 2017, developers walked away from the Pilgrim pipelines, which would have funneled fracked oil from New York to New Jersey. In May, state officials denied a key permit for the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, commonly referred to as the Williams pipeline, between New Jersey and New York City. - https://grist.org/fix/advocacy/how-activists-shut-down-key-pipeline-projects-new-york/
Simply put, natural gas pipelines that could bring abundant gas supplies from Appalachia’s Marcellus shale region have been blocked at every turn over many years. ..All six New England states rank among the top ten highest electricity rates in the continental U.S...It’s also worth noting that a ban on LNG exports wouldn’t increase the amount of U.S. LNG available to the Northeast. That’s because the century-old Jones Act—which limits trade between U.S. ports to American-flagged ships only—effectively prohibits LNG imports from the Gulf Coast. Instead, New England pays top dollar for cargoes from Trinidad, Nigeria, and occasionally even Russia.-https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/18/northeast_pipeline_blockade_delivers_trifecta_of_bad_outcomes_dependence_on_fuel_oil_higher_prices_and_more_foreign_energy_imports_817354.html
increased natural gas pipeline capacity into New England, though clearly the most feasible solution to the region’s electricity shortages, is not going to happen.
Political opposition is the reason, both in the New England states themselves but also in New York, through which most potential pipelines would have to pass. As it is, New York is starving itself of needed gas, and is even less likely to agree to serve as a conduit through which gas moves on to New England states. - https://cei.org/blog/more-new-england-natural-gas-pipelines-needed-but-unlikely/;
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