Democrats Shout Into the Wind

Now they know how it feels when they kill oil and gas projects

WSJ editorial. Excerpts:

"West Virginia’s Mountain Valley Pipeline was more than 90% complete when Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals judges canceled its permits. Congress had to pass a law to let the developer finish the pipeline so more gas could flow from Appalachia to the Southeast.

A liberal federal judge in 2020 ordered Energy Transfer to halt the oil flow and empty the Dakota Access Pipeline, which had been operating for three years. The D.C. Circuit stayed the order, but the legal battles continue. The Army Corps of Engineers on Friday issued a new 464-page environmental review for the pipeline."

"Democrats have used phony environmental concerns to block natural-gas pipelines. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo nixed a permit for the Constitution pipeline, which would have delivered cheap gas from Pennsylvania to his state"

"In 2022 Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey boasted she had “stopped two gas pipelines from coming into this state.”"

"Gas plants can produce electricity at some 80% lower cost than offshore wind"