“When you count the all-in cost to customers to build, finance, and operate this gas infrastructure, our predictions two years ago that this project would cost as much as the failed $9 billion VC Summer nuclear project are coming true. The difference is that the environmental damage from millions of tons per year of new air pollution for 50 years plus using the gas pipeline to industrialize the ACE Basin will be worse. Meanwhile, in the five or more years before this project delivers any power, the world economy will continue to shift towards the cleaner, more advanced energy solutions that South Carolina should embrace.”
