Gov. Cuomo’s Self-Inflicted Natural Gas Shortage Coming to a Head"Years of aggressive anti-natural gas policies, while simultaneously increasing natural gas consumption, is coming to a head in the Empire State.
...Cuomo followed up an October emergency order requiring the utility company National Grid to lift its months-long moratorium on new natural gas hook-ups for existing suspended customers, with a threat to revoke the utility’s license to operate downstate (New York City-Long Island region) if it is unable to find a solution to supply this natural gas to all roughly 4,000 applicants by November 26.
The irony: The company never would have had to suspend service in the first place if not for the governor’s ongoing pipeline blockade.
“In another display of political grace, Mr. Cuomo has ordered the utility National Grid to resume natural-gas hookups that were suspended after his senseless pipeline veto this spring. … Apparently Mr. Cuomo didn’t understand that the result of his pipeline blockade was to force residents to use more expensive and less-efficient electric appliances for space and water heating.”
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