MA State Energy Prices Skyrocket After Blocking Pipelines – Needed Russian Imports

New England had to import a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas, even though it is located just a few hundred miles from one of the largest natural gas fields in the world.

Now the people of the state are in an uproar over the high cost of heating their homes.

Gov. Maura Healey deflects blame for surge in Massachusetts utility rates

I caught this tweet yesterday, and Bunk could not resist going back to the box of golden posts from the past:

An excellent example of just what has been allowed to happen that puts Americans at risk. 

Even the Boston Globe opined that “Massachusetts’ reliance on imported gas from one of the world’s most threatened places is also a severe indictment of the state’s inward-looking environmental and climate policies.”

The recent winter’s unprecedented imports of Russian liquefied natural gas have already come under fire from Greater Boston’s Ukrainian-American community, because the majority shareholder of the firm that extracted the fuel has been sanctioned by the US government for its links to the war in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Last week, in response to the outcry, a group of Massachusetts lawmakers, led by Senator Ed Markey, blasted the shipments and called on the federalgovernment to stop them.

From the post from the Boston Globe and well worth a read Our Russian ‘pipeline,’ and its ugly toll

2 Part Video:

TODAY: Democrat Boston Governor Maura Healey says they have an energy crisis because it’s impossible to get natural gas

2022: Gov Healey brags about BLOCKING natural gas pipelines that would’ve solved their crisis

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— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 8, 2025

Better yet, the Jones Act precludes Americans helping out other Americans:

The U.S. has several LNG export facilities that are already operational or will come online in the coming years. Why can’t we ship American LNG to Boston?

One reason is an antiquated federal law from 1920 – the Jones Act – that prohibits cargoes from being transported between U.S. ports unless they are carried on American-flagged ships.

The stupid thing:

There are about 150,000 miles of oil pipelines and more than 1.5 million miles of natural gas pipelines in theUnited States. ALREADY! 

The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently announced that in 2017, for the first time since 1957, the U.S. exported more natural gas than it imported. But this stopped with Biden.

Feb 5, 2024 — President Biden’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export ban puts politics over people. It jeopardizes the American economy and our energy security.

Yet, even as we become a global energy superpower, political barriers prevent us from maximizing the benefits of the shale revolution.

New England — located just a few hundred miles from the Marcellus Shale, one of the world’s largest natural gas fields — was forced to import a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas. This was necessary because anti-energy activists have convinced local elected leaders to block new energy infrastructure, including pipelines that could bring American gas to the region. This is making households in the Northeast more dependent on imported energy, and forcing them to pay among the highest energy bills in the country. More at Washington Examiner

Here are a couple of sites where one can find out pipeline locations down to the county.

National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) Public Viewer – Interactive

NPMS Public Viewer (.gov)https://pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov › PublicViewer

President Trump can drill baby drill all he wants but if voters of these Democrat states are determined to stop progress they shall reap their reward.

Here is the punctuation tweet.

Senator Wyden:

“ We are in an arms race on clean energy with them. Are you going to be on the side of people who want to unravel this?”

Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent:

“ China will build a hundred new coal plants this year.
Senator Wyden. There is not a clean energy… pic.twitter.com/0kHsO1oz4c

— Rarely Tolerable. (@RarelyTolerated) January 16, 2025

The worst of the swamp.