Nightmare in Boston – Everett LNG Import Terminal May Close 2024
The Democrat left’s blockade of new natural gas pipelines from the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale into New England is about to be exposed as the biggest mistake ever made by people like current Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (who blocked pipelines as Attorney General). Next year, New England’s biggest natural gas-fired power plant–the Mystic Generating Station in Everett, MA (Boston suburb)–will shut down. It’s no longer profitable for the owner, Constellation Energy, to keep operating. Next door to the power plant is another facility owned by Constellation–the Everett LNG import terminal, which accepts and regasifies foreign natural gas. Speculation is that since the power plant’s main source of gas comes from the LNG import terminal, the LNG terminal may close down too. Which means Boston and New England are in deep doo-doo.
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The Dept. of Energy (DOE) grants permission for LNG export facilities to ship LNG to non-free trade agreement countries. It can take years to sign up enough customers (via contracts) and investors to make a “final investment decision” (or FID) to move forward with a project that often approaches $20 billion. LNG builders need to know once the plant is built, it can actually ship to other countries. But the DOE grants its permission to export with a string attached: The plant must get built and begin shipping within seven years–or the permit expires. Until April, LNG builders would routinely ask for an extension to the seven-year period. In April, the DOE changed its policy and declined to extend a permit for Energy Transfer’s Lake Charles LNG project beyond seven years (see 
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