CMU Research Finds Lack of NatGas Pipes Cost New Englanders $1.8B

Here's a peer-reviewed, published research study you won't read about in mainstream media. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Penn State University, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation recently published research in The Electricity Journal (full copy below) detailing how much money it cost New England electric ratepayers in 2014 when there was a cold-weather event that caused a shortage of natural gas used for power plants, due to lack of pipelines. New Englanders paid $1.8 BILLION for that one event in skyrocketed electric rates--due to the folly of their elected leaders in blocking new pipelines to the region.

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