Sparking controversy, McAuliffe breaks with Dems over gas pipeline
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VERONA, Va. – While his national party leaders fight the Keystone XL Pipeline project across America’s plains, Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe sparked a political firestorm Tuesday by touting a massive natural-gas line through Virginia.
“This project is a game changer for Virginia’s economy, and the benefits will be both immediate and long-lasting,” McAuliffe said.
Dominion Resources and AGL Resources – whose representatives flanked McAuliffe at a Richmond news conference — will oversee construction and operation of the $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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AGL Resources chairman Hank Linginfelter pledged that the venture will bring “abundant, and affordable natural gas to the U.S. 460 corridor and Hampton Roads, and will serve as a backbone for economic expansion.”
The Keystone pipeline project, running from Canada to Texas, has generated similar claims.
But critics of the Dominion-AGL line — starting in West Virginia and branching out to North Carolina — contend that much of the liquefied natural gas will head out of the country.
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