Gas Pipeline Makers Need Help with Green Camp

[Marina Schwarz + 1,576]

"The United States should help the natural gas industry push back against opposition by environmental groups to pipeline projects by adopting new regulations or laws that favor infrastructure, backers of the industry said at a conference this week. Suppliers in the United States, the world’s biggest natural gas producer, have had a difficult time in recent years getting shipments to some regions, including fuel-hungry New England, as environmental lawsuits by states, green groups and property owners have tied up pipeline construction."

Help!

[ronwagn + 6,290]

Permits for pipelines, electric lines, interstate roads, railroads, and all other critical infrastructure should be mandated by the federal government as needed. These are potential life and death necessities. The localization of power plants and electric grids is the only way to avoid massive outages in the future. Natural electromagnetism from sun spots or from nuclear bombs could presently shut down vas portions of our commerce, power, and communication. Credit cards, cell phones, telephones, power, water, natural gas could all be unavailable. If you doubt what I say, read up on the subject. This is not a popular subject because it will cost hundreds of billions of dollars over many years. That is where leadership comes in, but I don't see it coming. We don't even have a master plan to protect national security and our civil defense systems are probably one tenth of what the should be.