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Started by Mudwall Gatewood, June 19, 2014, 08:25:47 AM

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sanjuanwormhatch

Maybe they're talking about this.  From the same (biased) source:

QuoteExpert analysis filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission today reveals that Dominion Energy customers will end up paying between $1.6 to 2.3 billion in unneeded costs if Dominion builds the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The analysis is included in one of three expert testimonies filed by SELC on Dominion Energy's Integrated Resource Plan.

"Today's filings add to mounting evidence that Dominion Energy is not getting the numbers right in its planning process," says Staff Attorney Will Cleveland. "That's a problem not just from an environmental standpoint but in terms of wasting billions of customer dollars."

The detailed analysis of Dominion's IRP, the document that guides the utility's long term planning, reveals that the company continues to use outdated data and modeling to come up with an energy plan for Virginia – one that skews in favor of the most lucrative plan for shareholders rather than the soundest one for energy consumption and customer costs.

SELC's experts reviewed Dominion's IRP and found the following:

Dominion is dramatically over-projecting the demand for electricity in Virginia and, as a result, is planning on building costly, and completely unnecessary, power plants at customer expense. This follows a pattern of bad analysis in Dominion IRPs that has been going on for a decade resulting in years of poor and inefficient planning.
Dominion's claim that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is needed for cost-saving reasons does not add up. Using Dominion's own data, the analysis shows that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will not save its customers a single dollar, instead adding billions to customers' bills.
Dominion is setting an arbitrary cap on the amount of solar it is willing to commit to in favor of building more natural gas infrastructure. By creating this artificially constrained model to determine solar use, Dominion overestimates its need for reliance on natural gas.
SELC will represent Appalachian Voices, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the National Resources Defense Council at Dominion's IRP hearing at the Virginia SCC in September.

Big J

Amazed at the relative quietness on the 210,000 gallons that leaked in South Dakota yesterday.  You know the pipeline companies winced at the news of that.

Michael Toris

Man built infrastructure fail

No shit


This basically sums up my thoughts on this entire fiasco.

Aka

Choose your answer from below and move on.

Fossil fuel transposing technology is so much better now, there's no reason to worry about leaks from new pipelines.
Environmentalists oppose everything.
Do you want to pay $10 a gallon for gas like they do in derkdurkastan?
Humans can't change the weather.
(thank good Christian God fearing republicans that are about to put a pedophile in the US senate for the last one). 

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

Can an exquisite little fishy stop or alter a local pipeline?

"The proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline is one project whose construction practices and environmental monitoring might be affected by concerns about the candy darter."

http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/virginia-tech-study-searches-for-candy-darter-as-endangered-species/article_cee32e35-47d9-50cf-ac49-f910bb964e1b.html
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