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Columbia Gas Asks Ohio for Expedited Approval of 4-Mile Pipeline

Chip manufacturing giant Intel has committed to building two semiconductor factories in New Albany, Ohio, making a huge investment of over $20 billion. It is the largest economic development project in Ohio’s history. Amazing! The two plants will need natural gas, lots of it. So local utility company Columbia Gas of Ohio has proposed building a new 4.2-mile, 12-inch pipeline to the facility. The pipeline will be constructed within public road rights-of-way within Delaware County, Licking County, and Franklin County, as well as in the City of New Albany. Columbia is requesting expedited state approval (and is likely to get it).
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Bill Sponsored by Ohio Congressman Designates NatGas “Green & Clean”

U.S. Representative Troy Balderson delivers remarks at a press conference in Licking County, Ohio to announce a resolution recognizing American natural gas as a “green” energy source.

One of the left’s favorite tactics to change the focus of a debate is to relabel and redefine terms used in the debate. For example, the left is currently on a quest to force people to stop using the words “natural gas” to describe natural gas and instead use “methane” or “fossil gas” or some other cockamamie term (see NY’s Anti-Fossil Fuel Wackos Rename Natural Gas to “Fossil Gas”). It’s time to fight fire with fire and borrow a chapter from our enemies. Ohio Congressman Troy Balderson, Republican representing Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, recently introduced a resolution that officially recognizes American natural gas as a “green and clean” energy source. It’s about time we start to call natgas green and clean, because it is! And because we can turn the debate around and defuse the lies coming from the left.
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