A Providence Journal editorial noted that New Englanders pay more for electricity than other Americans and decried recent developments blocking
additional pipeline capacity that would help solve the problem.
The Calgary, Alberta - based company reached $ 176 million consent decree with U.S. regulators in 2016 that required inspections
of additional pipelines in Enbridge's Lakehead network, a web extending some 2,000 miles across seven states.
Pembina's Lemphers goes further, predicting that Enbridge and TransCanada «will have a lot of trouble putting
in additional pipelines» until the NTSB's recommendations, or their equivalents, are implemented on both sides of the 49th parallel.
Navigator Energy Services is expanding the Glass Mountain Pipeline system
with additional pipeline and storage capacity.
Without additional pipelines, New England will be importing higher cost liquefied natural gas (LNG) to its terminal on the Mystic River in Boston Harbor.
Enbridge provided similar analysis in support of their Alberta Clipper pipeline project in 2007, again suggesting that
additional pipeline capacity to the U.S. Midwest would increase Canadian crude values by $ 0.28 / bbl.
The most important of these actions would be to greatly ease the Federal regulations on and availability of oil and natural gas and to ease the regulatory oversight on the construction
of additional pipelines to bring these products to market.
«Rail and supporting non-pipeline modes should be capable, as was projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude oil production to markets if there were
no additional pipeline projects approved.»
While Keystone's 830,000 barrels - a-day of throughput is significant, it's still only a fraction of
the additional pipeline capacity that will be needed for producers to fulfill their expansion plans.
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The additional pipelines being lobbied for by industry and governments are therefore not necessary.»
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additional pipeline?
Under existing market conditions, the study found «there is no electric sector reliability deficiency through 2030, and that
no additional pipeline gas capacity is needed to meet electric reliability needs,» according to a summary of the research.
After more than a year of regulatory delay, new questions are now emerging about the need for
the additional pipeline capacity from Canada.
By including native support for INFURA, MEW has effectively created
an additional pipeline to send ETH transactions into the pending transaction pool.