Into Thin Air explains how natural gas companies collected nearly $40 MIL from Massachusetts consumers in 2010 for natural gas they never used.
According to its author--Becky Smith, Massachusetts Water and Clean Energy organizer, natural gas customers are "unwittingly signing big checks" back to gas companies.
See more at: http://blog.cleanwateraction.org/2012/11/30/into-thin-air/#sthash.vWLwHSD8.dpuf
Why? We are paying gas companies for all the methane currently leaking underneath Boston and throughout the Commonwealth. Yet ratepayers are charged for not only the natural gas delivered, but for all the methane lost through leaking pipes as well.
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| Courtesy of Conservative Law Foundation |
Beyond paying natural gas companies for product never received, however, methane gas leaks severely undercut actions to mitigate GHG-emissions here.
Last November WBZ's I-Team identified more than 20,000 leaks in Massachusetts at the time. The I-Team report was prompted by a natural gas explosion that destroyed a home. Although the I-Team's coverage suggested most of the known leaks across the state are ranked at "level 3" (which we're told means, "basically leaking safely"), my concerns are not assuaged.
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