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Taxes On Natural Gas Pipelines Can Result In Money Flow For Rural Schools

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With pipelines being constructed across Ohio, many of the economic benefits promised are quickly becoming economic realities with new jobs, new businesses, and new revenue for schools.

MARRA: A decade ago, Cloverleaf schools were in fiscal emergency. A school levy in 2014 helped pull it from the brink, and Kubilus says the district of 2,600 students is now back on track. But new tax revenue from the pipeline could mean more for this district than just keeping its head above water.

KUBILUS: It gives us the opportunity to explore programming and options for our Cloverleaf students that we could have only dreamed about in the past.

Read more – NPR

As Oil Production Grows, New Construction Buildout Expected

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Last year, North Dakota saw oil production increase after the completion of Dakota Access, and production shows no signs of yielding.  Officials are now worried capacity will be reached within a few years, which can cause headaches for farmers looking to get their crops to market again by forcing oil back on trains.

As oil production is expected to increase, particularly as a result of technology advancements, industry leaders believe North Dakota will need an expansion or a new pipeline to export crude oil out of the region.

Read more – The Bismark Tribune

Price of Gas Impacts Everyone

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Despite Ohio’s drivers seeing gas prices increase across the state, CEA Midwest Executive Director Chris Ventura, looks at why Ohio prices still remain lower than the national average.

The national average for gas will jump to $2.70 this spring, a price Americans haven’t seen in years, according to AAA. Prices in Ohio are projected to remain just below the national average, thanks to our state’s continued leadership in energy production and infrastructure.

Read more – Troy Daily News

Shale Gas News With David Holt

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David Holt, President of Consumer Energy Alliance, sat down with Shale Gas News to talk about Marcellus development and the consumer savings that could be realized across New England with responsible energy policies and domestically produced natural gas.

Listen here – Shale Gas News

Keeping Gas Prices Low Means Keeping the Pedal Down on Energy Production

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CEA’s Kevin Doyle discusses how we can continue to ensure families and businesses will not see budget busting $4 a gallon gas if we embrace smart energy policies.

Remember when the price for regular gas was $4 a gallon and everyone was looking everywhere for relief, including expansions in energy infrastructure and production? Recent low gas prices have made it easy to shrug at such thoughts and take these sustained prices for granted.

Read more – Tallahassee Democrat

Florida, Keep the Pedal Down on Energy Production

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CEA Florida’s Kevin Doyle talks about the negative impact high energy costs have historically had on families and businesses and what can be done to ensure we have continued supplies of affordable, reliable energy.

Remember when gas was $4 a gallon and everyone was looking everywhere for relief, expansions in energy infrastructure and production included?

Things have surely changed. Record low gas prices have held strong for years now, and even today’s prices, hovering at the $2.50 mark statewide and lower in many regions, make it easy for residents to shrug at such thoughts.

They shouldn’t.

Read more – Sun Sentinel

Court Rejects NYSDEC’s Appeal of FERC’s Valley Lateral Ruling

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David Holt, President of CEA recently discussed how arbitrary, political tactics are being used to delay critical energy infrastructure and the detrimental effect this has on families across New York and the region.

“Critical pipeline projects have been held up with permitting processes that are increasingly being abused in an effort to delay development. Unfortunately, low-income families, seniors, and households across the Northeast and New England are left with the bill,” Holt said.

Read more – O&GJ

Holt: Russia Sows Discord, Discontent in American Society

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Sitting down with North American Shale, CEA”s David Holt discusses the recently disclosed campaign against American energy independence and energy security secretly funded by Russia to sow discord in policy debates.

We’re certainly very concerned that the Russians obviously tried to take advantage of public debate on energy issues. We are also concerned about the lack of civility in some of these ongoing discussions. From a Consumer Energy Alliance perspective, we support energy for American families and small businesses. We also support environmental improvement. We’re one of the groups that’s right in the middle, supporting an ‘all of the above’ strategy that makes sure we’re looking at this in a non-partisan way and making sure we’re finding solutions for the environment and solutions for our energy policy. We encourage other groups to join us in this big middle so we can keep that conversation going. We saw memes and other things on the internet that were attributed to Russian efforts. There are certainly memes out there attributed to other groups that are known in the United States and that aren’t helping us reach a logical conclusion.

Read more – North American Shale

Pennsylvania Must Do More to Keep Energy Affordable

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CEA Mid-Atlantic’s Mike Butler looks at how energy development and environmental protection have helped to keep energy affordable for families across the Commonwealth.

It’s critical that industry does everything possible to reduce air emissions and ensure clean water. The state and region are leading the world in environmental progress, and by every measure, our air and water are cleaner today than they were five, 10, even 30 years ago. We’re making progress. That must continue.

Read more – The Mercury

Thwarting Efforts to Learn About Energy Hurts Lower-Income Families

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CEA President David Holt looks at how some special interest groups are working to prevent scientific studies that examine the potential for offshore energy development in order to better inform elected officials and the general public.

Groups in several coastal states dependent on expensive imports from foreign and sometimes hostile nations are working to thwart opportunities to learn more about the federal government’s latest plan to study the potential for oil and gas development off our nation’s coastlines — even though these states need more low-cost energy to meet surging demand and population.

Read more – Newsmax

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