Why to Prefer Pipelines? It’s the Safer Way to Transport Natural Gas and Create Jobs

By Dennis Martire

Want to protect Pennsylvania’s environment and strengthen its economy? Build more pipelines.

Despite the emotion-filled protests charging that pipelines will doom our future — including a group of environmentalists who marched on the Governor’s Mansion in February — the facts tell a different story. Pipelines are safer than any other mode of transporting fuel. When pipelines carry natural gas, they reduce carbon emissions and global warming. And the pipeline industry supports thousands of family-sustaining jobs.

Read the full oped in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2017/04/01/Why-to-prefer-pipelines/stories/201704010017