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A Needs Assessment of the Hopkinton-Ashland Transfer Line Replacement Project

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Client: Town of Ashland

Authors: Liz Stanton, PhD, Joshua R. Castigliego, Bryndis Woods, and Eliandro Tavares

May 2020

Clinic Director Liz Stanton, PhD, Researchers Joshua Castigliego and Bryndis Woods, and Assistant Researcher Eliandro Tavares authored this white paper on behalf of the Town of Ashland to assess the need for the Hopkinton-Ashland Transfer Line Replacement project. Proposed by Eversource to the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board in 2018, Eversource maintains that the pipeline is required to address current and future customer gas demand, as well as the need for redundancy in the gas delivery system. AEC found that Eversource's claims are not strongly substantiated, include errors/omissions, and do not adequately consider alternatives to building additional gas infrastructure. Overall, this white paper deems the project unnecessary in satisfying both current and expected gas demand, that redundancy is not the planning standard in the state, and that the pipeline contradicts emissions targets and climate laws as Massachusetts transitions to a zero-carbon future. 

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tags: Liz-Stanton, Joshua-Castigliego, Bryndis-Woods, Eliandro-Tavares
categories: Massachusetts, Natural Gas, Pipelines
Wednesday 05.27.20
Posted by Liz Stanton
 

Analysis of the Economic Impacts of the Mariner East Pipeline

Client: Clean Air Council

Author: Liz Stanton, PhD

April 2017

Clinic Director and Senior Economist Liz Stanton, PhD provided Clean Air Council with analysis regarding the economic need for new supplies of gas liquids carried by the Mariner East 1 & 2 pipelines. Sunoco Pipeline claims that the Pennsylvania public will benefit from the pipelines. Dr. Stanton assisted Clean Air Council in reviewing this claim including present and expected future supply and demand of gas liquids in Pennsylvania and, given this information, the extent to which new supplies of gas liquids can reasonably be expected to benefit the Pennsylvania public.

tags: Liz-Stanton
categories: Gas Plants, Pipelines
Wednesday 04.12.17
Posted by Liz Stanton