Posted on 10/06/2019 5:51:59 PM PDT by george76
A gas shortage threatens the Long Island region,” bleat six Long Island state senators, all Democrats, in a letter pleading for approval of a pipeline proposed to fix the problem — belatedly admitting that the policies they’ve long favored don’t work for their own constituents.
This year, Sens. Todd Kaminsky, John Brooks, James Gaughran, Anna Kaplan, Monica Martinez and Kevin Thomas all voted for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Green New Deal law, whose very purpose is to further crimp energy supplies, and for a $100 million hike in taxes on energy.
And, as Senate GOP leader John Flanagan (their fellow Long Islander) notes, all were AWOL when the Williams pipeline was up for consideration by the state Department of Environmental Conservation — which recently issued a pseudo-scientific veto of the project.
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The “lack of a reliable future natural-gas supply has the potential to upend the lives . . . halt economic development, and adversely result in the use of dirtier forms of energy,” the Democrats write in begging for “emergency” approval of the pipeline.
Of course it does. But the Long Island Six, like most New York Democratic electeds, have long pretended otherwise.
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National Grid, the utility for the area, warned this summer that it was unable to deliver more natural gas to Long Island unless the state OK’d the pipeline, and specifically said it would have to stop taking new customers.
Democrats from Cuomo on down treated that as a bluff, or a threat — and then turned around and blamed the utility when it followed through.
But now Winter Is Coming. The Democratic county executives of Nassau and Suffolk have belatedly called for the pipeline to go through, and joined the business community in pleading for support of the six senators.
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Voting Democrat SHOULD hurt. We should invest some time into a campaign to mock and taunt the NY progtards who vote for this Mitt.
Typical absolute nitwit LIBs. It would be a laugh if those who voted for the fools froze this winter. LOL.
If I had to live in boston, I’d go into a dark closet and hang my self._
Funny thing is, when Hurricane Bob came speeding up the coast a few years later you know how they effected the LI evacuation? Dusted off the evacuation plans for a Shoreham incident. It all went like clockwork. Interesting how THAT never made the papers.
Let them freeze. Maybe they will vote differently next year, say about Nov. 3rd.
They will freeze to death and even buried will vote Democrap.
It would be poetic justice. But as they froze to death they’d find a way to blame the companies, or Trump, or both.
1965 - Shoreham nuclear plant pans announced
1973 - Construction started.
1976 - First anti-Shoreham protests.
1979 - Three Mile Island.
1979 - 15,000 protesters at Shoreham, largest demonstration in Long Island history.
1983 - Finding that Long Island could not be evacuated.
1984 - Construction completed.
1985 - Federal permission for 5% low power tests granted.
1986 - Chernobyl.
1989 - Local opposition insurmountable. Agreement to not operate plant. $6 billion to be charged to Long Island residents.
1992 - LIPA bought plant from LILCO.
1994 - Shoreham fully decommissioned.
BUT...those same Green policies will work everywhere else...LI is just “unique”....lol
The people who have big homes out in the Hamptons are going to get pretty cranky over this.
Weatherbell is predicting a cold and snowy winter ffor the Northeast...
Freeze liberals! Freeze! Mr. Freeze from Batman will pay you a visit! LOL!
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