CEA Mid-Atlantic Executive Director Mike Butler recently sat down to talk about the importance of pipeline infrastructure to help decrease energy costs for New York’s families and businesses.

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CEA’s Mike Butler discusses New York energy costs and the importance of embracing an all-of-the-above energy policy, which includes modernizing energy infrastructure like pipeline, to help lower costs and ensure reliability for New York families.

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Coverage of CEA’s latest report,  “Pipelines and their Benefits to New York”, detailing how families have suffered from higher energy costs and lost economic opportunities as a result of misplaced political policies.

This terrible policymaking not only raises the price of electricity, but weakens the economy as well. “Natural gas is the foundational building block for the state’s manufacturing sector,” according to CEA’s report. “New York had over 194,400 jobs that were tied to energy-intensive companies and made up nearly 55 percent of the state’s manufacturing sector.”

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CEA’s David Holt discusses how families across New York have been negatively impacted by political games which have artificially increased energy prices across the state by arbitrarily delaying upgrades and the construction of critical energy infrastructure.

Each project the Cuomo administration fought would have delivered more natural gas to a state hamstrung by a shortage of affordable energy. The high energy prices New Yorkers pay can be avoided by permitting more pipeline capacity. Instead, Russian LNG was imported to help the state and Northeast’s dire supply situation, even though ample supplies of domestic energy were available and waiting for delivery from nearby states. These local shipments would’ve also cut costs for state households that, per a 2017 analysis by Consumer Energy Alliance, pay 141 percent more than the national average for electricity.

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