{"id":427962,"date":"2022-04-07T03:11:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-nixed-natural-gas-project-proves-how-absurd-bidens-energy-policy-is\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T03:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:11:31","slug":"this-nixed-natural-gas-project-proves-how-absurd-bidens-energy-policy-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-nixed-natural-gas-project-proves-how-absurd-bidens-energy-policy-is\/","title":{"rendered":"#This nixed natural-gas project proves how absurd Biden\u2019s energy policy is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406fc14c4b4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406fc14c4b4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-nixed-natural-gas-project-proves-how-absurd-bidens-energy-policy-is\/#%E2%80%9CThis_nixed_natural-gas_project_proves_how_absurd_Bidens_energy_policy_is%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;This nixed natural-gas project proves how absurd Biden\u2019s energy policy is&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThis_nixed_natural-gas_project_proves_how_absurd_Bidens_energy_policy_is%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;This nixed natural-gas project proves how absurd Biden\u2019s energy policy is&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/biden-natural-gas.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>As gas prices rise and Vladimir Putin escalates his war on Ukraine, Democrats\u2019 political fortunes\u00a0fall.\u00a0That\u2019s why President Joe Biden\u00a0announced last week he\u2019ll increase domestic production to combat what he calls \u201cPutin\u2019s price hike\u201d at the pump by imposing \u201cfees\u201d (read taxes) on US energy companies for unproductive wells leased on public lands.<\/p>\n<p>This political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>smanship will stop neither soaring gas prices nor the Russian president, however, and may well accelerate Democrats\u2019 death spiral heading into the midterms. Because Biden isn\u2019t at war with Putin, he\u2019s at war with domestic energy production \u2014 and has been since Day One of his administration, when he canceled the Keystone pipeline to bring Canadian oil to the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Keystone\u2019s fate sent a chilling message to anyone contemplating a costly infrastructure project: This administration prioritizes a radical green agenda over American energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>But Keystone was only the first Biden action that significantly undermined investments that would have increased both domestic supply and exports abroad. Right now, millions of gallons of natural gas could be streaming out of the central Pennsylvania town of Wyalusing, then shipped out of a new export facility in Gibbstown, NJ. Instead, environmental extremists emboldened by the administration\u2019s heavy-handed regulation spent the last year and a half shutting down this critical project.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Wyalusing is a case study in everything that has gone wrong with US energy policy under Biden. In 2018, New Fortress Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/files.dep.state.pa.us\/RegionalResources\/NCRO\/NCROPortalFiles\/NewFortressEnergy\/New*20Fortress*20Energy*20LNG*20Plant*20Plan*20Approval*20Application*20(December*202018).pdf__;JSUlJSUlJSUl!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!yWI51vwF-wMcAsHy6jIhZbIWWr_ZPUHQImLGNhs_eVYIhdM0-dUwBPD8GJ02LxR-S0w$\">to build a $800 million natural-gas processing plant<\/a>\u00a0there to purify and liquefy millions of gallons of gas from the Marcellus Shale, which would then move by rail and truck to the export facility in New Jersey. The target operation date was the first half of 2022. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, Wyalusing should be coming online right now and, through Gibbstown, helping increase US exports to Europe \u2014 just when they\u2019re needed most to counter Putin\u2019s iron grip on natural-gas supplies to our NATO allies.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Instead, New Fortress Energy announced last month it will suspend the long-delayed project indefinitely\u00a0after fanatical environmental groups \u2014 including PennFuture, the Clean Air Council and the Sierra Club \u2014 obstructed it through repeated legal action against both Wyalusing and Gibbstown. New Fortress decided to cut its losses after a long fight: It was easier to placate these organizations by allowing the necessary permits to expire than risk the ongoing expense and reputational damage they threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Biden policies\u00a0designed to make getting natural gas to market more difficult <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/delawarecurrents.org\/2021\/07\/08\/new-obstacles-loom-large-for-wyalusing-gibbstown-lng-project\/\">also influenced<\/a> this decision. A key sticking point for the green groups was the proposal to move most of the liquified natural gas from Wyalusing to Gibbstown by rail \u2014\u00a0necessary thanks to obstructions and legal hurdles that routinely target any pipeline project.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Transportation to begin the process of allowing natural-gas transport by rail. But Biden rescinded it via his own executive order, putting all LNG-by-rail regulations under review. That considerably complicated the Wyalusing project and gave more legal ammunition to green groups. It\u2019s also depressed demand for the necessary specialized rail cars, which are therefore in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than having significantly increased energy supplies to boost exports in the Ukraine crisis, Pennsylvania remains\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.northcentralpa.com\/features\/on-the-pulse\/as-gas-prices-rise-is-pennsylvania-s-natural-gas-an-energy-solution\/article_388615e6-ac55-11ec-91a7-d77db8f75fef.html__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!yWI51vwF-wMcAsHy6jIhZbIWWr_ZPUHQImLGNhs_eVYIhdM0-dUwBPD8GJ02gbCwzHw$\">limited to current capacity<\/a>, which clearly won\u2019t be enough to replace Russian supplies. A sad irony is that the same environmental groups making it harder to transport US energy are <em>raising <\/em>global emissions by forcing European consumers to rely on Russian gas exports \u2014 which\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/prod\/files\/2019\/09\/f66\/2019*20NETL*20LCA-GHG*20Report.pdf__;JSUl!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!yWI51vwF-wMcAsHy6jIhZbIWWr_ZPUHQImLGNhs_eVYIhdM0-dUwBPD8GJ02UmIYzuY$\">emit more than 40% more<\/a>\u00a0pollution than the cleaner US gas exports to Europe we should be accelerating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More US natural-gas production is essential to ensuring affordable and reliable fuel during the energy transition, strengthening our allies\u2019 energy security and reducing global greenhouse-gas emissions. The path forward is clear: Biden should im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely release new energy-infrastructure guidelines to include extending permits for projects delayed by legal action, facilitating logistic projects to include both pipelines and rail and expediting export facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its desperation to lower domestic gas prices, the administration <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-wants-more-oil-from-canada-but-not-a-new-pipeline-to-bring-it-11649163668\">is reportedly considering<\/a> replacing Keystone by moving the additional Canadian oil that would have come by pipeline by rail \u2014 the very means of transportation its environmentalist proxies used to target Wyalusing.<\/p>\n<p>This is verging on the absurd. If Biden is serious about supplying Americans with plentiful, affordable energy and defeating Vladimir Putin in the energy war, he can start in Pennsylvania, where the attrition of energy projects is happening in real-time due to his policies. It\u2019s going to take years to wean Europe off Russian natural gas, making it all the more urgent to expedite \u2014 not harass out of existence \u2014 projects like Wyalusing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Victoria Coates, a distinguished fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, served as senior policy adviser to the secretary of energy in the Trump administration.\u00a0Jennifer Stefano is executive vice president of the Commonwealth Foundation and an Independent Women\u2019s Forum <em>visiting fellow<\/em>.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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