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Egg-Timer: Political Economy of Environmental Policy Location: D-112 Session Chair: Massimo Tavoni, Politecnico di Milano e EIEE | |
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Not All Talk is Cheap: The Role of Special Interest Groups in Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America The limited expansion of the U.S. natural gas pipeline network has created supply and deliverability bottlenecks in energy markets. Ongoing calls for reform, in turn, often cite surging costs and delays arising from the pipeline permitting process. Yet, reform proposals motivated by rising cost may mischaracterize the problem if they do not accont for the incentives facing pipeline operators under cost-of-service regulation. Drawing on the complete administrative record of US gas pipeline permitting, I show that public comments are not associated with capacity-adjusted costs, but are associated with increases in project duration. Comments from environmental groups, tribal governments, landowners, and commercial firms have varying associations with costs but could offset each other, yielding less impact on pipeline decisions as a society. These findings provide new evidence on rm and interest group strategies in the political economy surrounding infrastructure permitting. | |