For more than four years, we have been calling attention to the fact that the Boston/New England area imports FOREIGN LNG each year, even though abundant DOMESTIC supplies sit a few hundred miles away in the Pennsylvania Marcellus (see Confirmed: LNG Coming to Boston on Jan 22 is Illegal Russian Gas). New England pays 2-4X as much for their imported natural gas as they would from the Marcellus/Utica. What stops Boston from using domestic supplies? Politicians (the governors) in both New York and Massachusetts block new pipelines. So far this year, Boston has imported ten cargoes of LNG at two facilities near Boston–roughly 16 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natgas. All of it is from foreign sources.
For more than four years, we have been calling attention to the fact that the Boston/New England area imports FOREIGN LNG each year, even though abundant DOMESTIC supplies sit a few hundred miles away in the Pennsylvania Marcellus (see 