Massachusetts Town Quietly Installs Gas Pipeline, Antis Livid

Douglas is a small town in southern Worcester County, Massachusetts. The population was 8,983 at the 2020 census. It includes the sizable Douglas State Forest, managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), and not much else. Douglas desperately needs new businesses to move in to help with the tax base, but with no natural gas service, businesses were not interested. So Douglas officials contacted Eversource, one of the state's largest utility companies, about the possibility of running natural gas lines into and through Douglas. And they've done it--behind the backs of radicalized anti-fossil fuelers, who are livid.

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