From The Daily Caller
Chris White Tech Reporter
October 09, 2019 2:00 PM ET
Massachusetts’ past reliance on Russian natural gas to keep citizens warm in the winter could cause some damage to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose presidential campaign is tied to the anti-fracking movement.
Warren is introducing a bill Wednesday with fellow Massachusetts Democrat, Sen. Ed Markey, that would block construction on ports that export natural gas. She is pegging her campaign to ending oil as her state recovers from an energy crunch that tossed Massachusetts into the cold in 2018.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire blocked financing in 2016 for the $3 billion Access Northeast Pipeline, a gas line that would have helped the state weather an energy crunch in 2018. The state’s decision to rely on green energy instead hiked gas prices and forced it turn to Russian imports.
New England’s energy grid struggled to keep up with energy demand in December and January of 2018 when frigid temperatures hammered the region. Boston received a shipment of natural gas from an export terminal owned by Novatek — one of the Russian energy giants sanctioned in 2014.
Massachusetts’ lack of pipeline infrastructure forced the state to rely on coal production during the cold snap, which caused energy prices to pitch upward. (RELATED: Here’s Why Russia Is Delivering Loads Of Natural Gas To This Deep Blue State)
“We wouldn’t have seen any widespread outages absent coal,” Kevin McIntyre, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency, told senators during a January 2018 meeting assessing how the grid responded to a recent spate of snowstorms.
“[C]oal was a key contributor,” McIntyre added. “It wasn’t exempt from operational problems — there were some issues, as I understand it, with frozen coal piles in certain sites and so on. But it was, no question, a key contributor.”
Warren is no stranger to campaigns against Massachusetts’ pipeline infrastructure. She asked federal regulators to rescind its approval in 2017 of Enbridge’s Algonquin Gas Transmission, a $452 million project that would replace existing pipelines in New York and Massachusetts.
Warren is even supporting a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling that involves spraying high pressure water and sand underground to make tiny fractures in rock to release gas, which can then be liquified.
She proposed a plan in June to spend $2 trillion over a decade to create one million green jobs.
Warren’s campaign has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment about her state’s past record struggling to meet energy demands following her state’s moves against pipelines.
Diminishing the supply, and therefore raising the price of keeping warm in the north east of the USA seems rather like a promise of no jam at all, as opposed to the usual political gambit of jam tomorrow ?
I’d be be prepared to cut Lizzie a little slack on her occasional distortions of events, it is after all a concept that any who have contact with the distaff crowd will be used to. Seeing some of her stuff from before she became a headliner in US politics seems to suggest she may have had some points worth considering.
However her current position only confirms that should one enter a Clowns Beauty Pageant, then it is required that one present as a Clown.
Warren needs a warden.
More proof that you can’t change stupid.
California, Massachusetts, and New York State are HOPELESS basket cases. That hasn’t always been the case.
The question is, how long will it be before the citizens of these states simply refuse to take Government-imposed suffering any longer? I have no idea.
Maybe they have lead in their water.
I see an easy solution for Republican senators. Simply tack on an amendment prohibiting the importation of Russian gas and requiring all States be linked to the U.S. natural gas network… on the grounds that it would be: bad for the Russians, a necessary accommodation to gas producing states, necessary for national energy independence, in the interest of U.S. national security, and (wink) good for the environment.
Be fun to watch Warren & Markey’s maneuver to kill their own bill.
So, after all, who IS really trying to help the Russian economy?
Common sense about energy seems to be sorely lacking east of the Hudson River in America. During the 2000’s, before the fracking revolution began, some were proposing LNG import terminals in Long Island Sound and Boston Harbor, but one was shut down by Connecticut Attorney General (now Senator) Dick Blumenthal, and the other by many leftists in MA, so a large LNG import terminal was built in New Brunswick, Canada, about 15 miles from the Maine border.
If those import terminals had been built then, after the fracking revolution in PA, those same terminals could have been re-purposed for export (although extra compression and refrigeration would have been required). Instead, with all the pipeline bans in New England and the fracking ban in NY state, Massachusetts has to import gas from Russia, of all places, while there is abundant gas in PA, just a few hundred miles away in the good ol’ USA.
If Warren wants to block natural gas exports, that’s a great way of “colluding” with Russia. After the Russian invasion of Crimea, there was a lot of talk about economic sanctions against Russia, but some Western European countries were “cool” to the idea because what if Russia cut off their gas supply in the winter? If we exported LNG to Western Europe, the USA and Europe could impose joint sanctions on Russia, without fear of reprisal from Russia.
If Warren proposes banning fracking, that would be a great way to lose the election. Thousands of formerly poor farmers in northern PA have gotten rich from fracking royalties, and a Democrat cannot win the presidency without PA and OH. Fracking for oil has also spread into New Mexico, which could flip that normally-blue state to Trump.
They really have a self reflection problem.
They threaten coal workers last time and now they double down by threatening the entire fossil fuel energy sector .
Look the fake Indian is about to be passed by the billionaires running the Democrat puppet socks .
Warren acts like she has sucked back about 6 espressos and pumps out socialist clap trap every time she bounces around a stage .
The only one that sounds remotely sane is the one they hate . Gabbard .
I’m really going to miss Spartacus , Bernie the Red , and plastic forget me not Biden .
No wonder they are all in on the Schiff lie . How does Schiff even have a law licence ? Aren’t they supposed to not lie . A liar / leaker . Still waiting for that Russia gate Schiff proof .