Trump says the solution to high New England energy costs is a natural gas pipeline project. It’s not nearly that simple.

WASHINGTON — As Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and leaders of other Northeast states try to reduce high energy costs, President Trump is pitching a simple but controversial solution: resurrect a major pipeline project to bring more natural gas to the region.

Joseph LaRusso, manager of the Clean Grid Program at the Acadia Center, an advocacy group working to cut Northeast carbon emissions in half by 2030, said building the pipeline now would probably cost $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion.

“While the conversation around pipelines has become resurgent again in the wake of this cold winter and concerns about affordability, there really is no indication that any increase in interstate gas transmission pipeline capacity into New England would make a difference in terms of prices,” he said, noting that prices have not moderated despite the region’s pipeline capacity increasing by 51 percent since 2014.

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