The fossil gas industry is sitting on a massive supply of shale gas in the Appalachian Basin, represented by the large red circle over West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania labeled “Appalachian Basin” on the map below.
Source: US Geological Survey https://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/apps/noga-summary/
At the same time, liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are expanding rapidly along the Gulf of Mexico. And in between are Duke, Dominion, Georgia Power, and Santee Cooper – utilities that see an opportunity to build expensive gas plants to serve load growth fueled by speculative data centers and uncertain manufacturing projects. This creates a very convenient profit opportunity for utilities, gas companies, and gas pipeline developers – paid for by captive utility ratepayers.
SACE is working to track, analyze, and daylight these projects, starting with a new paper that looks at the relationship between abundant gas supply in the Appalachian basin, multiple new interstate pipeline expansion projects enabled by firm transportation contracts with utilities, grid decarbonization, the ability for utilities to sell unused pipeline capacity in the third-party market, and physical pipeline access to LNG export facilities.
2025: A Year of Decisions that Could Lock in Carbon and Higher Power Bills
Legislators and regulators such as FERC and state utility commissioners will be making many decisions in 2025 – whether to approve pipelines, power plants, or integrated resource plans – that have the potential to lock Southeastern ratepayers into expensive and unnecessary infrastructure. These decisions could also lock us into more than 106 million metric tons of downstream CO2e per year.
SACE’s New Hub
SACE’s new Fossil Gas Resource Hub provides quick access to our blogs, analyses, and resources on these topics. We also highlight resources developed by other experts and partners, including:
- An interactive map of gas plants, pipelines, and export terminals developed by the Sierra Club
- Landing pages for the grassroots efforts to oppose the Williams Transco Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, EQT’s Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate, and the Enbridge T15 Reliability Project
- A map of Transco, MVP Southgate, the T15, compressor stations, power plants, and schools created by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice
- Our own whitepaper outlining fossil gas pipeline safety issues will be added soon.
We hope you find these resources useful as we work to transition the Southeast to clean, reliable, renewable energy.
Check Out SACE’s Fossil Gas Resource Hub
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For most of our lives, many of us boomers have believed that the biggest threat to the United States was our president, starting with Tricky Dick Nixon, the inventor of the “trickle-down economics,” liar Ronald Reagan, and GW (the moron) Bush.
But yes, none of us was prepared for the cold, calculating criminal who is Donald Trump.
There Were Prior Threats to the Nation Stemming from the White House
The fact that human activity is unsustainable has been revealed to us gradually over the last century. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published 63 years ago.
That said, the ideas of climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity have been essentially unchallenged by scientists for just the last couple of decades.
The only thing standing in the way of rapid environmental progress is greed, and in the end, that may prove to be an unbeatable foe. Decarbonizing our grid and transportation sector will eventually destroy the fossil fuel industry, a group so powerful that it has a stranglehold, both on our lawmakers and on our corporate-owned media, that works so hard to misinform our citizenry.
It’s still possible that our most senior military leaders will insert themselves in time to prevent some truly catastrophic event here in the United States/abroad.
I keep thinking I’ll read about an exchange like this:
Trump: We’re invading Greenland.
Some four-star general: The f*** we are.
This may sound like a pipe dream, but these are people of real honor and integrity who take their oaths to our constitution quite seriously.
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