Contributor, Jim Willis, at Marcellus Drilling News (MDN), has laid out over time just how the NIMBY world was able to temporarily deny UGI and cost us all. Here are four excerpts from his continuing coverage of what should have been a non-issue.

PA Utility Announces Second NatGas Rate Cut This Year
May, 2012: On March 1, a little over two months ago, UGI Penn Natural Gas, a utility which serves approximately 158,000 customers in 13 counties in northeastern and central Pennsylvania, announced it was immediately reducing natural gas rates for its customers by 4.5 percent. UGI announced yesterday it would file its annual rate on June 1 and it will request yet another 4.5 percent rate reduction on its annual rate which would take effect December 1. That’s a total of 9 percent in one year—thanks to the abundance of PA’s Marcellus Shale gas.

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