New Oklahoma senator wants to focus on permitting
“I really want to make sure that we really have meaningful permitting reform,” said the former pipeline company executive.
“I really want to make sure that we really have meaningful permitting reform,” said the former pipeline company executive.
Alan Armstrong, the ex CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Williams Company, was appointed Oklahoma’s U.S. Senator for the next nine months…
This isn’t just an attempt to resurrect an expensive and dangerous project that would further lock us into fossil fuel dependence.
State regulators now say developers are attempting to bypass current environmental standards, and argue that the pipeline’s proposed route, which crosses more than 250 streams, requires a fresh look at 2026 ecological data.
We previously ran analysis on the Constitution project, finding it would struggle to flow at capacity…
New York has approved permits for a controversial pipeline that would transport natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey and to an offshore transfer point near Queens.
Without a new application to FERC, there is no project for state regulators at DEC to evaluate, said Garti, who won legal victories in the previous years against Constitution while she represented a group called Stop the Pipeline.”
Garti has been on the frontlines of fighting the Constitution Pipeline, another Williams venture New York previously rejected that Trump is also trying to revive.
Dennis Wamsted, an energy analyst at the nonpartisan Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, further cautioned that building a new pipeline could lead to higher utility bills because the cost of gas is unpredictable. . .
The push by Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to resurrect the failed Constitution Pipeline proposal essentially asks New Englanders to increase our dependence on fracked gas from outside the region…