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(The Center Square) — As Texas and Louisiana build out major hubs for liquefied
natural gas exports, historical skepticism gives policymakers in Pennsylvania
pause.

Demand for natural gas is projected to rise, but how tapping into that growth
could benefit the state’s southeastern communities is open to interpretation. As
the Philadelphia LNG Taskforce discussed the viability of opening an export
facility in Chester County, familiar concerns rose to the surface.

“Since the close of Philadelphia Energy Solutions, opportunities have been
limited,” said Mark Freeman, president of Laborers Local 413. “This plant brings
opportunities for our members to make affordable living wages and to continue to
send their children to college.”




The promise rings hollow, said Rep. Carol Kazeem, D-Chester, and further
degrades public health in the region.

“What we are witnessing right now is history attempting to repeat itself,” she
said. “My community … has been promised economic salvation each time an
industrial plant is proposed. It happened with the paper mill, and it happened
with the trash incinerator. It has happened a dozen subsequent times.”

The benefits, she added, have been scant.

“A 27% childhood asthma rate, an increase in health risk and illness amongst our
seniors rapidly, a decrease in jobs and companies … and also a 19.3% infant
mortality rate,” Kazeem said. “What we didn't get was the promise of permanent
jobs and also financial emancipation.”

For economic growth, she pointed to encouraging smaller projects like
supermarkets, art projects, retail stores, new housing construction,
restaurants, medical insurance, and car dealerships, rather than a massive
corporate project.

Representatives of the natural gas industry argued an LNG facility would boost
the economy, improve the environment by replacing coal with natural gas, and
advance national security by making the country energy-independent.



Any growth, Marcellus Shale Coalition President David Callahan said, starts with
pipeline infrastructure – in Pennsylvania and states beyond.

“First and foremost, we need pipelines,” he said. “These not-so-new areas of
production here in Pennsylvania need additional pipelines to reach markets …
Efforts to build pipelines into New England and New Jersey have been stopped by
activist organizations and their state-government enablers. Countless projects
that are critical pieces to our infrastructure puzzle have been canceled,
delayed — or, in many cases — have never gotten off the drawing board.”



Pipeline capacity has been an issue in the commonwealth, The Center
Square previously reported, as natural gas production slightly declined last
year and pipeline expansion was at its lowest point on record since at least
1995, Callahan noted. Those problems contrast Texas and Louisiana, which
increased production and have many more pipeline projects in the works.

On the federal level, Callahan wants to see the permitting process streamlined
and federal regulators “reining in states that abuse the federal level
permitting processes.”

“What is needed is a culture that prioritizes permit predictability, consistency
across regional offices at (the Department of Environmental Protection),
internal accountability, and a recognition that job creators are partners — not
adversaries,” he said. 

Annoyances over delays and difficulties aren't reserved to one political party,
either. But legislators aren’t the only roadblock.

“The regulatory issue, I think, is a bipartisan frustration long suffered by
many of us who recognized that corporations have actually walked away from
opportunities in Pennsylvania in part because of this,” Sen. Anthony Williams,
D-Philadelphia, said.

However, Williams noted that he has not had a visit from MCS officials in years,
even though he supported shale-related legislation years ago.

“If we’re going to move ahead on this or anything in that space, the design of
how we approach this has to be much more bipartisan and balanced,” Williams
said. “I’m pretty frustrated by the fact that we have not really developed the
partnership I think was promised to me literally when I first voted for it.”




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Anthony Hennen is a reporter for The Center Square. Previously, he worked for
Philadelphia Weekly and the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is
managing editor of Expatalachians, a journalism project focused on the
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