Massachusetts Governor Healey Is Rethinking Gas Pipeline She Opposed

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey once boasted, "Remember, I stopped two gas pipelines from coming into this state." However, she may be having second thoughts about her actions.

With an election just around the corner, voters are still reeling from high energy costs made worse by a long, cold, windy winter heating season. Healey is said to be open to reviving one of the natural gas pipelines she claims responsibility for defeating.

The governors in the Northeast, with visions of windmills and solar panels dancing in their heads, defeated the Constitution Pipeline Project 10 years ago, which could have delivered national gas to the region from Pennsylvania.

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Healey was Attorney General of Massachusetts at the time the project was halted.

But the pipeline may have new life.

The Washington Post reports that "President Donald Trump seeks to bring the project back from the dead" and "anxiety over energy costs has state leaders rethinking their opposition."

The Post says the governors of New York and Connecticut have already expressed interest in working with the Trump Administration to bring the pipeline project back to life.

With windmills falling apart at sea and interest in the planned wind farms off the Massachusetts coast waning, Healey spokesperson Karissa Hand tells the Post the governor "will review any energy proposals through the lens of whether they would lower costs and move us toward energy independence."

Sources not authorized to speak on behalf of the administration told the Post that includes "proposals for more natural gas infrastructure, as long as ratepayers don't risk getting saddled with a huge bill for pipeline infrastructure."

Massachusetts has some of the highest energy costs in the country.