Holyoke, Mass. Gas Moratorium Continues Due to No New Pipelines

In February 2019, Holyoke (Massachusetts) Gas and Electric slapped a moratorium on new gas customers throughout its system (see Another New England Utility Says No New Gas Customers). There’s not enough natural gas available to sell to customers, not without more supply. Holyoke gets its gas from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP). Kinder Morgan’s solution to provide more gas to Holyoke and others is to expand the delivery capability of TGP in the region by adding a minuscule 2.1 miles of new looping pipeline (buried next to an existing TGP pipe), upgrading a compressor station, and building a new connection, called a delivery gate. It’s a minimal project, a nothingburger--and yet the crazies in Mass. refuse to allow it. Which means the Holyoke moratorium on new gas customers continues, for two years and counting...

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