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The United States is the global energy production leader, yet 23 million Americans across the Northeast face energy reliability and affordability challenges. These issues are not from a lack of natural gas production – instead, from the politically motivated, irrational decisions of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to prevent energy infrastructure from being built.
More closely aligned with radical environmental activists than the needs of hard-working families and energy consumers across the region, Gov. Cuomo has effectively cut off the Northeast from accessing clean, abundant and affordable natural gas. And with the signing of the radical New York Green New Deal, the Northeast is in for further electricity reliability and affordability challenges.
This energy blockade prevents families, small businesses, and manufacturers in seven states from enjoying the economic and clean air benefits of the American shale revolution.
Make no mistake, energy pipelines – overwhelmingly built by the region’s skilled and highly trained building trades union members – are the safest method of transporting energy that’s closely regulated and monitored by a host of federal and state agencies. “Americans are more likely to get struck by lightning than to be killed in a pipeline accident,” the Manhattan Institute concluded in a recent study.
Consumers across the northeast are already feeling the sting of Gov. Cuomo’s disastrous policies. Natural gas supply constraints are one of the primary drivers of the New England region having the highest average electricity costs in the continental United States, according to federal data.
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