Welder Inside of Pipeline

Consumer Energy Alliance and other industry groups urged the Supreme Court to repeal a ruling on the PennEast pipeline, citing that the ruling would have devastating impacts on families, farmers and small businesses alike.

“A change in the ability to use eminent domain authority on state land could also mean more uncertainty around the viability of natural gas projects, rendering investments more difficult to secure and pipelines more expensive to build, wrote the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association and the New Jersey Business & Industry Association.

 

Other groups warned of “ripple effects across the economy” from the elimination of high-paying construction jobs for natural gas infrastructure and expressed concerns about potentially higher energy costs for those living in poverty or on fixed incomes.”

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