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Consumer Energy Alliance Applauds Trump Administration Pipeline Decisions

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) today commended President Donald Trump for signing a pair of Executive Orders that will allow the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines to move forward, both of which will safely deliver the resources U.S. families and businesses need to drive down costs.

In the case of the Keystone XL pipeline, today’s Executive Orders overturn the Obama administration’s decision to deny a U.S. State Department permit required to allow the pipeline to cross the U.S.-Canadian border. For the Dakota Access Pipeline, President Trump overturned several Obama-era regulatory procedural measures that had resulted in unnecessary project delays and cost increases.

CEA President David Holt made the following statement after President Trump issued these Executive Orders:

“CEA has strongly supported both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines for many years and we enthusiastically applaud President Trump’s decision today to move ahead with these long-delayed projects.

“Critical infrastructure projects like Keystone XL and Dakota Access will bring much-needed crude oil to markets, which will help create the fuel, power, and products that Americans use every day. Everyone – families, farmers, manufacturers, distributors and small businesses – will benefit from the decision to greenlight a pair of pipelines that will help cash-strapped families lower costs, especially the tens of millions living on a fixed income or below the poverty line. These pipelines will create both immediate jobs and long-term economic opportunities for Americans across the nation, helping to fulfill one of President Trump’s main campaign promises to create more U.S. jobs.

“But America needs even more pipelines to move forward. As part of CEA’s Pipelines for America campaign, CEA recently released a report showing how failing to construct vital oil and natural gas pipelines, which deliver fuel and electricity to our homes and businesses, will result in a 31 percent shortfall in U.S. electricity capacity by 2030 – which, in turn, would raise energy prices, kill jobs and harm those of us living on fixed incomes.

“CEA urges the Trump administration to continue what it started today with its Keystone XL and Dakota Access decisions and continue efforts to streamline permitting of pipelines to create jobs and spur economic growth.”

To review a copy of the CEA pipeline report, titled “Families, Communities and Finances: The Consequences of Denying Critical Pipeline Infrastructure,” click here.

Trump Executive Orders May Revive Dakota Access, Keystone XL Projects

CEA’s David Holt was quoted discussing the importance of pipeline infrastructure in decreasing energy costs for families.

“Everyone—families, farmers, manufacturers, distributors, and small businesses—will benefit from the decision to green-light a pair of pipelines that will help cash-strapped families lower costs, especially the tens of millions living on a fixed income or below the poverty line,” Consumer Energy Alliance Pres. David Holt said in Houston. “These pipelines will create both immediate jobs and long-term economic opportunities for Americans across the nation”

Read more – Oil & Gas Journal

Build Modern, Safer Pipeline

Two engineers in front of large refinery

The editorial board of The Advocate recently came out in support of modern, state-of-the-art pipelines to move Louisiana’s economy forward.

Modern pipelines built of high-quality metals and continuously electronically monitored are arguably safer than the older transmission lines, and costs would be reduced for refineries in Louisiana’s petrochemical corridor.

Read more – The Advocate

A Push for Natural Gas Pipeline in South Jersey

Warehouse with boxes

The editorial board of NJ Business recognized the environmental benefits of new pipeline construction to meet the needs of New Jersey’s businesses for affordable, reliable power generation.

And there’s a major environmental plus to the project. The pipeline will allow the B.L. England power plant to convert from coal and oil to cleaner-burning natural gas, resulting in a 97 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions and major reductions in other pollutants. The pipeline will also provide a backup for the single gas pipeline now serving Atlantic and Cape May counties. The state Department of Environmental Protection says the plant must close if it doesn’t convert to gas. Pipeline critics say the plant should close — and be replaced by a vast solar and wind farm. But solar and wind power at the site cannot meet South Jersey’s power needs, particularly with the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Ocean County closing in 2019.

Read more – NJ Business

Pipeline Buildout a Must for PA. Agriculture

Farmer in tractor preparing land with seedbed cultivator

CEA’s Michael Butler discusses the importance of pipelines to Pennsylvania’s farmers.

Some energy costs are easy to point out, like the diesel fuel needed to run tractors, combines and other implements. Others are not, like the expenses incurred for farmers who use irrigation systems, which run the pumps that move water into fields. This, the EIA notes, is because of “the high cost of connecting various dispersed systems to the electric grid and the high cost of having enough capacity available to meet seasonal irrigation load.”

Read more – York Daily Record / The Evening Sun

New CEA Report Warns: No Shale Gas Pipelines, No Electricity

Electricity transmission substation transformers

CEA’s most recent pipeline infrastructure report was featured in Marcellus Drilling News.

Earlier this week the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) released a disturbing report on the U.S. oil and gas pipeline network and its relationship to our growing domestic energy needs.

Read more – Marcellus Drilling News

CEA Report Says Pipeline Rejections, Generation Changes Would Put Nation at Risk

David Holt, President of CEA was interviewed about the impacts of pipelines on utility costs for families and small businesses.

“I don’t believe that most of the protesters out there realize the implications of what they’re suggesting,” so CEA produced the report “to bring a little reality to the conversation” and show those implications and the impacts on households, Holt said. Because low-income households spend a larger portion of their budget on energy bills, the higher energy prices stemming from halting infrastructure projects would hit those households worse than others, he noted.

Read more – The Foster Report

Without More Pipelines, Scary Economic Scenarios Become Real

Monthly natural gas heating bill

CEA’s David Holt was featured in Real Clear Energy discussing how pipelines contribute to ensuring financial stability for families.

Energy costs are “affordable” up until a certain point. That tipping point, experts agree, is when costs exceed 6 percent of a household’s income.

Despite the occasional moans and groans when paying the utility bill, like after the holidays, many U.S. families don’t always feel the crippling pain of paying more than they can afford for energy. The electric bill rarely breaks the bank for them.

Unfortunately for others, it does. In 2011, roughly 23 million people required some sort of federal assistance to pay for electricity or home heating, per the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

That’s because lower-income families spend a larger percentage of their disposable income on electricity, heating and transportation costs than those in other income brackets. In fact, their percentage can be 20 percent or more.

Read more – Real Clear Energy

CEA Launches Pipelines Campaign

Laborers working on pipeline

Midwest Executive Director Chris Ventura discussed the importance of pipelines to farmers and manufacturers.

For far too long, constraints on pipeline capacity have prevented consumers, manufacturers and farmers in the Midwest from being able to fully realize the benefits of American energy production, and the only way to reverse course is through the development and construction of the region’s pipeline network.

Read more – The Sunbury News

Alliance Report Says Further Rejection of Pipelines Will Reduce Electricity Generation

Multiple electric transmission lines

CEA’s latest report, Families, Communities and Finances: The Consequences of Denying Critical Pipeline Infrastructure was discussed on the Radio Oklahoma Network.

Oklahoma and Texas and other states that make up the southern plans would see electricity shortfalls of 23 and 13 percent despite the huge, projected increases in wind and solar energy development.

Read more – Radio Oklahoma Network

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