Pass the Jim Beam! Army Corps Issues Pipeline Permit for KY Forest
In May MDN told you that Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) had won Kentucky state approval to build a new 12-inch, 12-mile pipeline near Louisville to supply gas to 62 homes and businesses that can’t connect to LG&E’s local natgas utility system (see Pass the Jim Beam! Judge Clears Way for Gas Pipe Near Louisville, KY). The local Bernheim Arboretum has resisted attempts to build across three-tenths of one percent (0.028%) of Arboretum land–along an existing cleared path where electric lines already go (see KY Utility Hints at Defunding Local Arboretum Blocking New Pipe). Too bad for Big Green. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently granted a permit for the full 12-mile pipeline–including across Arboretum land.
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Some 130 energy, manufacturing, business, and labor trade organizations, led by the American Petroleum Institute, are sounding the alarm about Democrats’ plan to tax methane emissions into oblivion, a back-door way of attacking natural gas and forcing Americans to quit using it. The coalition of groups sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (headed by WV Sen. Joe Manchin) opposing a plan by Democrats to include the Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021 in the $3.5 trillion so-called budget reconciliation bill.
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The Route 2 | I-68 Authority in West Virginia wants to expand Route 2 to four lanes from Parkersburg, WV to Chester, WV, and to extend Interstate 68 from I-79 near Morgantown, WV westward to WV Route 2 along the Ohio River Valley, some 73 miles (see 
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