uhh…..not so fast. You may want to get a look at our Lieutenant Governor first...
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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Hope that the pipeline is well guarded; the Watermelons (They say they're "Greens", but they're RED on the inside) will likely try to blow it up to prove how dangerous pipelines are.
not to worry.
When the gas is shut off the people on the Provence of Manhattan can heat with coal
Thank you. Not only bears repeating, but should be sung by angels from the high heavens.
Pinochet had it right... just fkn kill them. That's all.
ATLAS SHRUGGED..........
Well said.
Sounds like a quid pro quo to me.
Its buried about 5 feet under ground
Those idiots are not going to do anything to it
My parents went to the bagel/coffee shop near where the pipeline went through, the owner stated the pipeline workers were in all day buying sandwiches and coffee, 40+ guys for breakfast and lunch, the month it was going in around her area was a giant boom for business. Three idiot protesters showed up, they hang out on the corner and hold up signs protesting the pipeline, she kicked them out immediately. They were their to cause trouble.
Told them to leave immediately or she was going to call the police, they left.
Leftists are such losers, who protests a pipeline? These fools, for what, who the heck knows. And natural gas serves a majority of NJ. I wonder if these fools feel hypocritical when they start up their furnaces in the fall/winter
Pilot lights have thermocouples that shut the supply valve when the flame goes out.
Newer furnaces have spark-lighters rather than pilot lights.
saw that gif and laughed, you posted and I laughed again....
Glad I don’t live anywhere near this mess.
That’s very likely to happen within the next decade.
So what, exactly, does happen if Cuomo pulls their license? In the Northeast, in the middle of winter? I’m not seeing a good outcome there...
Yep.
The same lefties that read the “train of abuses” in the Declaration of Independence as a checklist instead of a warning.
I don’t care what that guy says in denial — but I’m telling ya, he voted for Trump in 2016. LOL.
This is the same feckin’ idiot who single handedly blocks drilling for gas when we have plenty right under our feet, and the same feckin’ idiot who won’t let anyone put in gas supply pipelines. Then this same idiot demands that gas be supplied. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Thermal Lance or “burning bar” in the trade lingo.
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