Posts Tagged ‘Energy Independence’

Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania has sent a sharp response to a letter from House Republicans on the Energy Committee urging him to relax limits on Pennsylvania’s gas reserves and alleviate market uncertainty created by the Ukraine crisis. The United States’ greatest natural gas reserve sits underground in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. There are about 100,000 operating oil wells in Pennsylvania. Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, chairman of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, penned the letter, which was signed by 14 other members of Congress on March 1. It begs Wolf to persuade neighboring states to lift pipeline development limits so that liquefied natural gas (LNG) can be transported to New England states, which now buy LNG from other countries, including, according to the letter, Russia. The letter also requests Wolf to lift the moratorium on natural gas extraction in…