The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an agency that approves pipelines, now has two new members, enough to establish a quorum so it can start approving pipelines again. Notice I keep using the word “approve.”
The agency is supposed to review pipeline applications, but in its entire history it has never turned one down. The two new Trump appointees include the former energy advisor to Mitch McConnell and a former member of the Pennsylvania PUC who once compared pipeline opponents to jihadists.
I’m going way out on a limb here, but I have a feeling the PennEast/UGI 36” fracking gas pipeline, the one that will go through Hickory Run State Park, Beltzville State Park, the Wild Creek Watershed, and, incidentally, our farm, will be approved.
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