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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They want you to freeze hungry in the dark.
I to force every liberal, progressive, dumb*ss greenie (redundency there) into a reservation up north where they have to live TOTALLLY on solar and wind.
And I’ll make billions and billions selling ticks to watch the b*stards freeze to death in the dark.
bttt
Maybe they could build a nuclear plant on Long Island to supply their energy needs. They could call it “Shoreham.”
Don’t ya’ love it when a democrat bandwagon runs over democrats?
Winter is cøming.
They want their cake and to eat it.
Yep, that’s 820 MW of emissions-free capacity they threw away for no reason other than the political ambitions of the Cuomo family.
Same thing with the Boston area. It’s all “ewww, icky pipelines”, but every winter like clockwork there is an unexpected natural gas shortage along with a price spike that hurts the poor and working families most..
I love it when libtards get bitch-slapped by their stupid policies.
“Same thing with the Boston area. It’s all “ewww, icky pipelines”, but every winter like clockwork there is an unexpected natural gas shortage along with a price spike that hurts the poor and working families most..”
Yup.
And the foreign ships continue up the Mystic river bringing imported natural gas from our enemies, enriching them.
And there’s literally, an unlimited CHEAP supply (in PA) of natural gas just a few hundred miles away.
But we can’t have a pipeline, oh no, that would hurt the environment.
If I lived in Boston (or LI) I’d install a coal stove.
And reality bursts the fantasy bubble again.
I’m sure there is going to be a section included in the green deal to prevent that...
They will just outlaw it and we won’t have to go though winter anymore. lol
Thanks george76.
Yup. If memory serves, it was completed 15-20 years ago and no one ever flipped the switch to bring it on line.
Unfortunately, innocent people get hosed.
My mom was one of countless Long Island moms who were against Shoreham. “We can’t evacuate from a meltdown” and all that. I seem to recall that Cuomo the First actually supported the plant (broken clock at 12)
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