Posted on 11/14/2019 6:37:48 AM PST by karpov
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a utility that provides gas to New York City and Long Island have been locked in a standoff since May, when New York regulators blocked the construction of a $1 billion natural gas pipeline that would have run from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and New York.
The utility, National Grid, says the pipeline is crucial to meeting the rising energy demand in the region and has imposed a moratorium, refusing to activate gas hookups for both new and returning customers.
On Tuesday, the fight took a sharp turn after Mr. Cuomo threatened to revoke National Grid’s license to operate in the southern part of New York.
Mr. Cuomo, in a letter, accused the utility of “mishandling” its gas supply system and recklessly disregarding its obligations as a public utility when it issued the moratorium.
The utility’s fundamental legal obligation “was to plan and provide for future needs,” the governor wrote. “You failed by your own admission.”
National Grid, which supplies gas to 1.8 million customers in New York City and on Long Island, said it would review Mr. Cuomo’s letter and respond accordingly.
“We continue to work with all parties on these critical natural gas supply issues on behalf of all our customers in downstate New York,” the utility said in a statement.
The moratorium has left some people in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island in flux. Developers have been unable to provide gas to new buildings, business owners cannot obtain requested upgrades and homeowners have had to fight to get suspended gas service restored.
“At this point, a number of projects are in limbo because of uncertainty over the energy supply,” said Kathryn S. Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City, an influential business group.
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If I were CEO of that corp, I’d send the Guv a letter stating:
In the fight against CLIMATE CHANGE we have decided to stop ALL deliveries of the EVIL CO2 PRODUCING NATURAL GAS to your state.
Have an ICE day.........................................
Sadly, yes she was.
Socialist leaders should be locked up in a windowless cell.
How is adding transmission infrastructure by building a pipeline NOT planning and providing for future needs? Yet the goobermint are the ones preventing the pipeline construction.
The leftist governments there look at them as FUTURE stated-owned entities................Who is John Galt?...................
and a Air tight door.....................
Cuomo Threatens National Grid: Provide Gas or Lose Your License..
QUID PRO QUO!!
I think they should tell NYC to get their gas somewhere else. I’m sick of these tyrant city-states. They want their services, but want their green socialism too. Not compatible.
“National Grid should have looked into alternatives, including shipping gas via trucks, ships or barges, or proposing other infrastructure means or building more unloading facilities.”
Those alternatives spill gas at 40 times the rate pipelines do and jam the already overloaded highways with more dangerous trucks.
Brilliant eco-terror there, Cuomo.
Huh … looks like government created the problem.
“Just crank up the psi 50% over capacity and let the whole place blow”
I was thinking the other way. Do what Como demands and let the pressure drop to virtually nothing. Would be interesting to see the reaction.
Does not matter how STOOOOOPID and nonsensical this is. New Yorkers will obviously continue to elect him anyhow.
If you make a law, the natural gas will come. Trust me, I’m your government.
The Progressives want to take over all the utilities.
Another approach would be for the state to take over National Grid and fix their “faults in the production and distribution process”.
It worked for Venezuela:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-24185342
“The Venezuelan government has taken over a toilet paper factory to avoid any scarcity of the product.
The National Guard has taken control of the plant, and officers will monitor production and distribution.
Earlier this year officials ordered millions of toilet rolls to be imported to counter a chronic shortage.
Last week President Nicolas Maduro created a special committee to tackle the problem, which the government blames on unscrupulous traders.
The government ordered the temporary occupation of the Manpa plant in the northern state of Aragua, state-run Radio AVN reported.
In a tweet on Thursday, Venezuela’s Vice President, Jorge Arreaza, said authorities would “not permit hoarding of essential commodities, or any faults in the production and distribution process.”
In Northern CA they are mandating that all new Homes be 100% Electric. No Natural Gas allowed.
NJ over the next five years.
Are you sure about that?
NJ is right now building a secondary link through central and south Jersey, RIGHT NOW. It went through my area over the summer, huge like 30” steel pipe for a 2nd redundant Natural Gas Link.
NJ and Philly have Natural Gas hubs as well
NJ also has the refineries as well. It was the reason our Gas, until recently, was the 2nd cheapest in the nation behind Alaska.
I don’t see NJ having supply issues anytime soon
Thank God Chris Christie was governor when all of these pipelines were approved and now are being constructed.
NJ and PA will be nice and warm this winter, let the idiot New Yorkers freeze this winter.
Stalin demanded numerical measures of output from each sector of the economy. But the collectivist system caused equipment and people to be unable to do their jobs. So he had the local supervisors shot.
Cuomo likes the idea.
Democrats don’t want more CO2. Then they demand more fossil fuel, which emit the CO2 they just banned, be shipped to their region!
Democrats are deeply conflicted about climate change.
Channeling his inner Ukraine
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