Actually, the anti-renewables movement and some state legislatures have no compunction whatever about declaring fracking and related technologies to be "in the public good" in order to undercut property rights and local zoning powers.

On the other hand, the EPA is doing the natural gas industry's bidding by narrowing environmental reviews for blue hydrogen projects, minimizing public comment opportunities, and fast-tracking state Class VI primacy applications for CCS.

The article champions faux environmental technologies such as CCS that are economic in only narrow applications. Rather than endorsing these technologies that were enacted to appease fossil fuel interests and some unions, we should use their economic inefficiency to warn off investors and bury them.

Utility ratepayers in the northern tier of states that get most of their gas from Canada will be particularly hard hit.

Wait for major utility bill hikes in the northern tier of states, from Vermont to Washington. The US imports almost 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas annually, almost all of it from Canada.

A serious risk is that, if gas generation grows as much as this piece suggests, the install base will become so large that future, more environmentally conscious administrations may be forced to rely on horrifically and unnecessarily expensive CCS to reduce emissions.