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Rover Pipeline Nearing Completion Is Great News
The Rover Pipeline is 99 percent complete, which is great news for Michigan, and particularly its agricultural and manufacturing sectors.
The Rover Pipeline is 99 percent complete, it has recently announced, which is great news for Michigan, and particularly its agricultural and manufacturing sectors. We are very close to enjoying the economic benefits that will come from having direct access to a steady, reliable supply of domestic natural gas.
The pipeline when finished will run 713 miles from locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Livingston County here in Michigan. That day is coming fast. The line is already open and working from Noble, Ohio, to Defiance, Ohio.
The section of pipeline that is open can move 1.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas every day. When complete, the whole line will move up to 3.25 billion cubic feet of gas a day. The whole line is scheduled to open by the end of the first quarter of 2018.
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Having a complete, working Rover Pipeline will make Michigan better off. Roughly a third of the natural gas carried by the Rover Pipeline will come to Livingston County to be delivered throughout Michigan and into Ontario. At full capacity, that would be 1.04 billion cubic feet of natural gas every day.
That will mean lower energy prices for Michigan. For the agricultural sector of the economy, lower natural gas prices will translate to significant savings.
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Michigan’s forest products industry boasts 150,000 jobs. Those jobs depend on the state’s 19.3 million acres of forest lands, but forests are not the only resource supporting all that employment. The forest products industry uses traditional sources of energy. The Rover Pipeline will help keep the supply of that energy stable and the costs low.
Michigan gets $14.6 million in economic activity out of the forest products industry. When that industry thrives, it contributes to a prosperous state economy.
The growth of the agricultural sector depends on a reliable supply of low-cost energy. Natural gas is an increasingly important source of energy in this sector. The Rover Pipeline will ensure that a steady supply makes it to Michigan.
For the forest products industry and the entire agricultural sector, the Rover Pipeline’s completion cannot come soon enough.