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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I met a guy earlier today who told me that wind and solar are controversial, and that some people say that the mining and manufacturing of wind turbines requires more fossil fuels that the turbines themselves produce.
I told him that I’m aware of such people; they’re called “professional liars.”
I explained the concept of EROI, energy return on investment, and surprised him by saying that the EROI of wind is somewhere between 18 and 30, meaning that each wind turbine you see as you drive along the freeway will generate at least 18 times as much energy as was required in its mining, fabrication, installation, maintenance, and decommissioning–all the way up to 30 times that amount.
The generation of disinformation of renewables has become a cottage industry. People are paid to make up and publish complete bullshit, so as to discredit the burgeoning clean energy industry, and keep Big Oil in place.
As bad as things are in the United States, they could always get worse.
Trump could succeed in his quest to be a dictator, Christianity could be taught in schools, and unvaccinated adults and their kids could trigger another epidemic.
In terms of our reputation on the world stage, however, things really can’t get must worse; the countries around the globe already regard us with a mixture of hate and derision.
Yet regardless of what the future holds, there will always be idiots who that believe that Trump is our savior, like the author of the meme above.
Good to see John Eastman disbarred in California; it’s a small measure of justice.
Criminal prosecution in the future?
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