Dominion Investing $10.1B, Creating 20K New Jobs in VA Next 5 Yrs

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It's a shame to have to prove to people what should be self-evident--that building new natural gas electric plants and natural gas pipelines will bring both new jobs and inject billions into a state's economy--but that's what you sometimes have to do. You have to prove it to counteract the negative drumbeat from radical anti-drillers and leftist mainstream media. So Dominion, a huge utility/pipeline company operating in 14 states including the Marcellus/Utica region, commissioned a study that looks at how many jobs and how much money will be pumped into the State of Virginia over the next five years if all of the pipeline and electric plant projects they have on the books happen. The study (full copy below) finds Dominion is set to invest $10.1 billion and create nearly 12,000 jobs over the next five years in the Old Dominion. A sizable portion of the new projects and jobs are tied to natural gas...

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