![]() That’s when the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, proposed to run across Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire and connect to the Marcellus shale fields, was abandoned after years of opposition. The death knell for new lines in New England sounded in 2016. Environmental groups want to phase out the fuel, not expand its use for a problem mostly confined to a dozen or so winter days. ![]() Reasons vary, but the key one is this: Methane is the chief component of gas and contributes to climate change. That’s because some residents, politicians and environmental advocates have long opposed extending or expanding pipelines that could bring more, cheaper gas from producing regions, such as Pennsylvania. ![]() Natural gas already is much more expensive in New England than elsewhere in the country, even nearby New York. A chief driver is the wholesale price of natural gas, which is burned for half of New England’s electricity generation. ![]() Now the cost is poised to go even higher in 2023. The cost of electricity supply for most homes and small businesses in southern and central Maine already has shot up this year, from around 6.5 cents a kilowatt-hour in 2021 to nearly 12 cents. Related Rate hike 2.0: Electricity supply costs due to rise again next year
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