Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Project Near Richmond, VA Canceled
Cancel culture strikes again. The Evil Empire has won another battle (but not the war). MDN first told you about plans to build the Chickahominy Power Station, a 1,650 megawatt state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in Charles City County, VA, in June 2018 (see Huge New Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Coming Near Richmond, VA). The plant will need a 24-inch gas pipeline that would traverse five counties in central Virginia to connect to an interstate pipeline that would feed Marcellus/Utica gas to the plant (see Richmond Gas-Fired Plant Explores Building Pipeline Thru 5 Counties). The project has hit multiple roadblocks getting the pipeline built, so Chickahominy Power is calling it quits, canceling the entire project outright.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration published an article yesterday pointing out that both petroleum (oil) and natural gas are and will continue to be the most-used forms of energy in the United States through 2050. In fact, both oil and gas use will continue to rise through 2050. This is completely contrary to the “renewables are almost here and fossil fuels almost gone” narrative peddled by the left. The EIA, now under the control of the Bidenistas, can’t ignore the truth. But here’s the larger story not told by EIA in its post, but evident in the chart used: Fossil energy will continue to be used four times as much as so-called renewables in 2050.
Consolidated Edison (Con Ed), the local gas and electric utility serving Manhattan Island and Westchester County in the New York City region, has proposed increasing electricity rates by 17.6% and natural gas rates by a stratospheric 28.1% beginning Jan. 1, 2023. Why so high for both? Lack of natural gas in the region. Why is there a lack of natural gas? Lack of pipelines from the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale.
The left always fights dirty. One of their favorite tactics is to demand a change in the rules of the game when they are losing. Free enterprise, allowing the best companies and best solutions to win based on economics, doesn’t work in the world of leftwing radicals. They seek to skew things–change the rules–tie a 50-pound weight on the back of the runner next to them in order to give themselves an advantage in a race. Which is exactly what’s happening in New England, where UNRELIABLE renewables (solar and wind) are complaining to FERC and FERC’s Chairman, Richard “Dick” Glick, a former wind lobbyist, that electricity auctions are awarded to natgas-fired power plants instead of so-called renewables because natgas is 100% reliable and renewables are not. Time to change the rules.
MDN friend Mark Caskey, president and founder of Steel Nation, a company that builds steel buildings used for natural gas compressor and transmission stations, penned an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to respond to lies being published by the leftist group Earthworks. On March 8 a paid anti-fossil fuel “petrochemicals campaigner” published a column in the Tribune-Review regurgitating Big Green lies that fossil fuels are evil and that calls by PA shale drillers to increase domestic energy output is somehow bad. The answer for lefties is always the same–renewable nirvana will ride in to save the day. (See our post today about fossil energy providing 4X more of our energy than renewables from now until 2050 and beyond–according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.)
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Gov. Justice appoints new Public Energy Authority member; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: U.S. Gulf of Mexico brimming with LNG tankers as exports rise; NATIONAL: US weekly LNG exports drop by one from last week; US natural gas storage declines more than forecast as Henry Hub futures surge; Make America energy independent again; Joe Biden’s ‘transition away from the oil industry’ is strangling America’s economy; Putin’s war revives calls for probe of Russia’s support of green groups battling U.S. oil production.