![]() Clean energy is imperative for stopping extreme weather caused by climate change: ![]() The pipelines will cut across dozens of streams including tributaries to rivers with endangered and threatened species. Communities burdened by new methane gas pipeline infrastructure will suffer air and water pollution, public health and safety concerns, among other burdens. A recent study found a strong correlation between existing methane gas pipeline infrastructure and social vulnerability. Rural residents will have land taken from them by the pipeline company through eminent domain. The pipelines will have a substantial impact on communities along their routes. Gas plants and pipelines are risky for nearby communities and wildlife: The Cumberland Replacement proposed combined cycle gas plant is more expensive than a diverse, cleaner mix of generation, aka a clean energy portfolio (CEP), that provides the same energy, peak capacity, and ramping services to TVA’s system. With less than 5% of its portfolio from wind, solar, and storage, TVA has a tremendous opportunity to invest in clean energy.Ĭlean energy is cheaper and available right now: A “bridge” isn’t necessary clean, renewable energy technology is affordable, reliable, and available right now. Although TVA leadership claims methane gas is a “bridge fuel,” the reality is that these polluting plants and pipelines, if operated to the end of their financed lifecycle would release dangerous, climate-warming gases for decades. Because options like solar and storage are significantly cheaper to operate, TVA could abandon the gas plant once operating it becomes too costly, saddling TVA's ratepayers with billions in avoidable debt from its reckless investment. Increasing reliance on an unpredictable, expensive fossil fuel stands to increase electricity costs and does not make economic sense.Ī new gas plant and pipeline would cost ratepayers at least 9 billion dollars more than clean energy alternatives.TVA already raised wholesale power rates by up to 10% in 2022, citing increased gas and coal prices. Methane gas prices are volatile and this can mean higher electricity bills.The proposed Kingston methane gas pipeline would rip through East and Middle Tennessee adding 125 miles of pipeline through areas that have already just recovered from the largest industrial spill in US History - TVA’s 2008 Kingston coal ash spill.The proposed Cumberland methane gas pipeline would cut across Middle Tennessee and add a 32-mile branch to an already existing 11,755-mile pipeline network that runs from Texas to New England operated by Kinder Morgan’s biggest subsidiary, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company LLC.The methane gas-fired plants TVA has proposed would require the construction of approximately 157 miles of gas pipelines through communities in East and Middle Tennessee.For now, the argument around the UK's fracking future will remain unresolved. Ultimately, Davies argues, most geologists and fracking firms recognise that wells need to be drilled to discover our potential shale resources.ĭavies concludes that the tectonic, seismic shift would have had an impact but there is still huge amounts of rock that could be at the right conditions. But there are still areas of the UK where fracking could be a success. The movement of the plates 55 million years ago wasn't helpful for Britain, although it left the United States largely unaffected. The report had a resource estimate of around 1,327 trillion cubic feet, suggesting a vast amount of potential shale suitable for fracking.ĭavies agrees with the basic conclusions of Underhill's research. The report demonstrated that there are lots of places in northern England that potentially have the correct conditions for shale gas to be found. In 2012, the British Geology Society published a report on Bowland shale in the UK, which is around 2050 million years old. So how much frackable shale rock does the UK have?
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