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WorseBeforeBetter

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Sun Jun 15, 2014, 09:38 AM Jun 2014

New natural gas pipeline to NC could dampen interest in fracking

By John Murawski
jmurawski@newsobserver.comJune 14, 2014 Updated 11 hours ago

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The multibillion-dollar pipeline project could transform rural counties, creating temporary construction jobs and boosting property tax revenues for cash-strapped governments. Over the long term, local officials hold out hope that the influx of cheap fuel will spur industrial development in Eastern North Carolina, one of the most economically distressed regions of the state.

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Dominion Resources has proposed a transmission line along the Interstate 95 corridor from West Virginia to the Lumberton area in Robeson County. The Richmond, Va.-based company has sent letters to more than 1,000 North Carolina landowners to alert them of coming surveying activity required to select a transmission route.

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Spectra Energy of Houston has proposed a 427-mile buried line starting at compressor station 220 in Bedford County, Penn., and ending in Robeson County. The $4 billion project would cross through seven North Carolina counties, including Wake, Johnston and Harnett.

Additionally, Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp. and Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra US Gas Assets are proposing a 330-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline from West Virginia to southern Virginia, on the North Carolina border, with an option to extend the line into North Carolina.

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/14/3934794/new-natural-gas-pipeline-to-nc.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy





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New natural gas pipeline to NC could dampen interest in fracking (Original Post) WorseBeforeBetter Jun 2014 OP
That and a thousand wells in the Marcellus shale that even haven't mmonk Jun 2014 #1

mmonk

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1. That and a thousand wells in the Marcellus shale that even haven't
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:40 AM
Jun 2014

come on line yet. However, the gaslines are an additional hazard we have to deal with

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