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adultdaycare81 t1_iwzljoc wrote

We tried to build one years ago. Mass and NH stoped it.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-ct-cancels-natural-gas-projects-20161027-story.html

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_343_Guilty_Spark__ t1_ix1bl91 wrote

Lmao I love how this has been posted time and time again and we STILL get the usual village idiots in this sub saying “CT DeMoCrAtS dId ThIs” despite the fact that they voted in favor of it

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Savings_Statement735 t1_ix5kofh wrote

You are arguing for less efficient, more expensive and more polluting infrastructure which is obsolete instead of the better cheaper way to go. And that is what the RePubLiCaNS want. The payoffs for the RePubLiCaN Office Holders, like Mr Arora.

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xp9876_ t1_ix0gsu8 wrote

Every time our natural gas issues are raised I think of all the people that were laid off where I used to work because the gas pipeline projects we were working on were canceled.

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Eincville t1_ix1dmla wrote

How would Mass and NH get in the way of a pipeline from Pa to Ct?

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psyco-the-rapist t1_ix1ijqv wrote

My uneducated guess would be because they needed the pipeline gas sales in MA and NH to make it return enough money. I'm sure someone much smarter will chime in.

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UnfairAd7220 t1_ix2cfqd wrote

The NH market has been restricted since the enviroloons blocked gas grid expansion. MA's market is much bigger.

The value is in widespread availability of cheap and plentiful gas.

Here in NH, we have the only coal plant in New England in Bow. If that could have access to gas, the whole region would be better off.

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UnfairAd7220 t1_ix2c7l5 wrote

NY state is the barrier. They won't let pipelines cross the state.

CT should cork the Iroquois line crossing the Sound and send it to Mystic.

ISO NE powers all of NE from Caribou ME, to Greenwich CT. From Burlington VT to Nantucket MA.

Every watt generated in every NE state benefits all NE states.

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xx-BrokenRice-xx t1_ix43le4 wrote

I’m assuming you are working in the industry since you are dead on with NY. I just posted the same thing. Unfortunately unless people do something with that state, bottleneck will forever to be there. They’ve screwed their own NY resident, and everyone else down the line are just collateral damage to them.

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UnfairAd7220 t1_ix2crge wrote

It's the same thing. What customer would like to carry risk if a regulator said that they didn't have to.
That adds a whole layer of risk to the transaction.

'He did not oppose the pipeline itself' was a bad decision...

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UnfairAd7220 t1_ix2hzn5 wrote

Yep. I remember it all.

All Eversource had to do was be more forthcoming.. 'Stranded cost recovery' was when the NH grid contribution was shaking itself apart for no particular reason other than politics.

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