SALISBURY, Md. The pipeline grows.
The Salisbury City Council heard the latest update Monday evening on a controversial natural gas pipeline set to extend service to Somerset County.
The Del-Mar Energy Pathway pipeline will extend natural gas service to Eastern Correctional Institution and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, as both anchors look to transition off more polluting fuels.
Chesapeake Utilities Corp. got the unanimous green light from the Maryland Board of Public Works in January for the $34 million project, which will add nearly seven miles of 10-inch-diameter gas pipeline from Delaware, through Wicomico County and into Somerset County. Residents and businesses along the line will soon have the choice to use environmentally beneficial and less expensive natural gas service, wrote Justin Mulcahy, spokesman for Chesapeake Utilities Corp., in a statement that month, something elected officials and community members have advocated for more than
killing jobs. [applause]. but specifically here in south carolina, i with a want to say three things. we should develop the gas off shore, you have 29 billion dollars plus of natural gas. those jobs in louisiana, $80,000 a year and create a tremendous industry. we should be taking part in royalties from developing off shore natural gas, finish out both in charleston and in georgetown modernizing harbors, the panama canal is going to be widened in 2014. [applause] we dramatically want to widen the harbor so that this is the modern port for export purposes even more than import. third, by using the right tax policies we want to rebuild manufacturing in south carolina. i want to be the president who was here with tim, watching the first container ship of south carolina manufactured goods going to china from the