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Speakers link proposed pipeline to data-center growth and urge slowing fossil-fuel infrastructure
Summary
Several residents connected the pipeline to proposed data centers and broader fossil-fuel expansion, urging the county to slow infrastructure approvals and prioritize renewables and climate planning.
Multiple commenters argued the pipeline is intended primarily to serve large industrial customers, including planned data centers, and that building pipeline capacity now would lock the county into a fossil-fuel pathway.
"We're contemplating the investment of billions of dollars in infrastructure to accommodate 1 thing, the burning of fossil fuels," Jennifer Cure said, and other speakers warned that the county’s climate-action goals would be undermined if long-lived pipeline infrastructure is permitted to support data-center growth. Several speakers urged delaying approvals, requiring full assessments of industrial demand, and prioritizing renewables and efficiency instead of new transmission for gas.
Residents asked commissioners to align county planning and moratoria with climate goals and to require public-necessity demonstrations if eminent domain is claimed to serve future growth.
