The Southeastern states are facing an unprecedented fossil gas pipeline buildout as producers seek ways to move Marcellus and Utica shale gas from West Virginia and Pennsylvania toward speculative markets in the South.
SACE is working to track, analyze, and daylight these projects. In our work against fossil gas, we recognized the need for a hub to provide quick access to our own blogs, analyses, and resources, plus highlight some of the great resources developed by experts and partners. We hope you find this page useful as we work to transition the Southeast to clean, reliable, renewable energy.
What is Fossil Gas?
Fossil gas is another name for “natural gas” and “methane gas” — these are just different names for the same polluting, costly gas. (Read Call “Natural” Gas what it is: a Fossil Fuel for more.) In addition to emitting harmful local pollutants when it is burned, fossil gas is increasingly expensive, often unreliable, and ultimately locks us into carbon emissions that worsen the terrible, unjust impacts of climate change on our communities every day.
SACE Analysis
“Highway to Export” Fossil Gas Analysis
- Companion Article: Southeastern Ratepayers Are Building a Gas Highway to Export
- Webinar Recording: “Highway to Export” Fossil Gas Webinar on March 6, 2025
- Companion Article: A Pipeline of Problems
- Gas Transmission Pipelines in Forsyth County + VA Health Center focus, North Carolina
- Gas Transmission Pipelines in Guilford County + Oak Ridge focus, North Carolina
Other Analysis
- Op-ed: Southeast Utilities Are Signing Gas Capacity Contracts That Will Burden Customers for Decades
- Op-ed: Our Community’s Future is Worth More Than Another Pipeline
General Resources
SACE Articles
Southeast
North Carolina
- The North Carolina Utilities Commission has a hole to fill on North Carolina’s road to decarbonization
- Duke Energy Leans Into Fossil Gas While the Rest of the Country Moves On
- Person County deserves a better deal from Duke
- Duke Energy’s Proposed Roxboro Gas Plant: A Primer
“North Carolina’s Gas Blow Out” Series
South Carolina
Tennessee
Community Resources
Maps
- Map: FracTracker Alliance Oil and Gas Infrastructure (Southern Coalition for Social Justice)
- Map: Gas Plants, Pipelines, and Export Terminals (Sierra Club)
- Map: Drinking water supplies impacted by SSEP, MVPS and T15 Pipelines (Clean Water for NC)
- Map: Pipeline Safety Tracker: Find the Accidents Near You (ProPublica)
Mountain Valley Pipeline
Transco Pipeline
- No SSEP (Transco Southeast Supply Enhancement Project) Landing Page
- “No T15 & Hyco Gas Plants” Landing Page
Other
Department of Energy Study – Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports
Journalism & Recent news
A Pipeline Runs Through It, by Lisa Sorg, Inside Climate News, Nov. 10, 2024. Past a prison and an elementary school, the T15 pipeline will traverse 45 miles of North Carolina countryside that Shelley Robbins wanted to see for herself. The T15 is planned as a critical connector in the state’s climate-warming fossil fuel buildout. Check out Lisa’s Gaslighting Series here.
Community pushes back against natural gas pipeline expansion, by Beza Zelalem, The Old Gold and Black, Feb. 21, 2025. Safety, environmental and economic concerns over SSEP spark concern for locals and environmental groups, reported by the student paper of Wake Forest University.
Pipeline through SC threatens private property, rivers and swamps, state told, by Sammy Fretwell, The State, July 3, 2025. Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper, both seeking to build a large fossil gas plant in South Carolina, are accused of supporting a new pipeline from Georgia to Colleton County that will needlessly damage the state’s sensitive wetlands and rivers, plus cut through residents’ private property.
State officials are considering a water quality permit for a controversial natural gas pipeline, by Celeste Gracia, WUNC, September 12, 2025. MVP Southgate is just one of many fossil gas projects being proposed across the Southeast, in part fueled by the rise of data centers and artificial intelligence in high demand of more energy. Southgate is one of three different pipelines proposed to cross through Rockingham County, North Carolina.
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