Shortages of gas for heating have hit the nation’s most important city: New York.
Following moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy to nix a pipeline that could deliver vital gas supplies to the city and Long Island, National Grid can no longer offer new gas hookups or additional service for current customers.
“If you’re looking to expand your natural gas service in Brooklyn, Queens or Long Island, we will not be able to meet your request,” unless both states reverse their decisions and OK the pipeline, the utility warns. Con Ed may have to turn away customers, too.
The govs nixed the pipelines in a pander to climate-change radicals. Yet the shortage won’t only hit well-off developers and businesses: It’ll also threaten projects meant for low- and middle-income New Yorkers.
A local group called Heartshare, which assists New York’s needy with heating costs, is nervous. Its vice president for energy programs, Joe Guarinello, says it’s written local congressmen in support of the pipeline.
“Right now, gas is the most inexpensive and the cleanest for heating homes in our area,” he notes. “We’d like to make sure that the people we assist, both the disabled and the economically stressed,” can continue to benefit from it.
The nuttiest part: These shortages are by no means unintended; they’re exactly what climate-change radicals want — a cutoff in fossil fuel supplies, whatever the consequences. They don’t care that there’s no good substitute now, or who suffers.
Don’t give up yet. The pipeline builder refiled its applications for permits. Sanity can yet prevail — but only if Cuomo and Murphy care about New York’s future.
Read more at NY Post
Sounds like the day is coming when the pipelines shut down for system maintenance . Lets see no hot water , no restaurants , massive business shut downs and dead beat politicians booted out for being ignorant A holes .
Look its the real life DUMB & DUMBER
I hope that Cuomo and Murphy do not change their decision. NY and NJ must learn what it means to keep electing far-left politicians like these and the politicians on the left coast as well.
Cuomo and mental midget Murphy are idiots .
What does Con Edison run in those massive boilers ?
The “pipeline blockade” foisted by Gov. Cuomo and his supporters is most unfortunate. At a time when northeast consumers are paying some of the highest utility prices in the U.S, short sighted “Keep it in the Ground” types are doing these folks, especially lower income households a huge disservice. Importing Russian natural gas is ludicrous when you have ample supplies next door in the Marcellus & Utica in PA & Ohio. Top that all off with the upcoming closure of Indian Point and lack of renewable projects to make up any of the building electric generating shortage and you have all the elements for increasing gas curtailments and (ultimately) potential blackouts. So, I have a suggestion. Next winter, when you are sitting in your plush, dark, cold mid-town Manhattan apartment, just remember who to blame…NOT the energy providers…
Good analysis. The rich can afford high energy costs and Canada Goose fashion to cope with the cold.
Cuomo and Murphy need to suffer the consquinces of their own liberal democrat stupidity but spare the people from having to suffer the grandstanding of their idiot democratic Govenors