Natural gas pipelines proliferating Western region

WELD COUNTY – The completion of the second section of a planned 1,679-mile natural gas pipeline that will eventually send natural gas from Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region as far east as eastern Ohio will result in higher gas prices for Colorado businesses and residents.

And those higher prices, caused by delivery of natural gas to more markets and more competition for it, are expected to climb even higher as other new pipelines planned for the next few years become operational.

The Rockies Express-West pipeline that sends gas pumped from Colorado and Wyoming fields to eastern Missouri – a 713-mile portion…