Energy policies across the country continue to get stricter without keeping the consumer in mind. Wendy Hijos, Consumer Energy Alliance New York State Director explains exactly why this is so detrimental.
“Readers should know that National Grid and Con Ed warned the public for nearly a year that without new pipelines to bring gas to New York’s growing market, they cannot connect new customers in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County without the supply to back it up.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is demonstrating what goes wrong when things that belong together are kept apart. In this case, it’s the use of natural gas, a critical part of our energy future that is being kept from the public by short-sighted policies that exclude this clean, safe energy resource strictly to appease certain special-interest viewpoints. And it does so at the cost to New York’s families and businesses.”
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