Is there a negative to creating a new OracleConnection, but not opening it?

I have a helper class in an external library which takes in an OracleConnection and returns whether it is a Production, User or Test database.

Basically I do 

OracleConnection conn = new OracleConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyConnection"].ConnectionString);

then

string environmentName = ApplicationEnvironment.GetEnvironment(conn).ToString();

Since I am never opening the connection, can anyone confirm that this is not something to be concerned about?