Manchin Pushes Defense Production Act for Natural Gas Pipeline

[AZProgressive]

Senate Energy Chairman Joe Manchin called on the Biden administration to use the Defense Production Act if necessary to rush completion of a stalled pipeline through his state to help Europe replace Russian natural gas supplies.

Manchin said the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline, which crosses his home state of West Virginia into Virginia, could transport two billion cubic feet a day and be up and running in four to six months.

“It’s the quickest thing that we can get, it’s more energy into the market that’s going to be needed,” Manchin said of the mostly-built pipeline. “I’ve been preaching to the heavens for a long time on this one. It can be done with the Defense Production Act.”

The act gives the president emergency authority to control domestic industries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-10/manchin-pushes-defense-production-act-for-natural-gas-pipeline

[Beachnutt]

1. Sorry man chin

we just can't get there....

[onecaliberal]

2. Fuck Manchin. Stop your friends from record profits

[jimfields33]

3. Interesting. Any environmental impact study done?

That my main concern with this.

[doc03]

4. Sounds ok to me, why is it stalled? nt

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Hell to the fuck NO.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Hey Joe, is 70% of your investments still made from your Coal Brokerage firm-which is 30% of income?

[Jerry2144]

7. Add that as an amendment

To build back better. And the full bill or nothing

[Freethinker65]

8. Approve it as long as it makes a detour to avoid the State of WV.

[bluestarone]

9. Add it to the VOTING RIGHTS bill, and

We'll discuss it.

[Me.]

10. "Biden Aide Says Oil Companies Can Up Production If They Want"

“A White House official said Tuesday that U.S. oil and gas companies should increase production if they want, pushing back against executives who’ve criticized Biden administration energy policies as prices soar.

“Prices are quite high, the price signal is strong. If folks want to produce more, they can and they should,” White House National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti said in a Bloomberg Television interview.

Ramamurti said there are 9,000 unused leases that the U.S. government has provided for oil and gas production and, people are free to use them if they’d like to.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-01/biden-aide-says-energy-companies-can-up-production-if-they-want

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Get back to us after you pass BBB and voting rights, Joe. Nt