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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Here’s a very short video on the subject of metaphysics, the philosophy of being and reality.
It’s a great example of what I mean when I say that it has been a terrible last few centuries for philosophers.
In ancient times, if you wanted to know what the fundamental building blocks of the universe, you asked a philosopher, perhaps the ancient Athenian Democritus, who propounded the theory of the atom, which was, by definition, indivisible. Now we refer this question to the realm of particle physics.
Far more recently, those who struggled to know the ultimate nature of reality asked a metaphysician. Now, once again, we’ve put our trust in science.
I hope you’ll check out the video linked above.
As a PhD colleague once told me, “If you don’t care how much of pay for electricity, I’ll get you all the renewable energy you could ever ask for.”
They want you to invest. Have you ever asked why people with their own money at stake have abandoned these ideas 20 years ago?
At left we see why Lincoln would have done well to let the Confederacy cede from the Union. He could have simply written a letter to Robert E. Lee stating:
Keep your slaves and your land…for now. Wait until you experience the effects of near-zero industrial and military technology development and the civilized world’s refusal to trade with you barbarians. By the end of the 19th Century, a stiff breeze will blow you away. Maybe some future U.S. president will invade you with a troop of Boy Scouts with slingshots, or maybe a handful of banditos will ride up from Mexico.
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