New York’s Growing Man-Made Natural Gas Crisis

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Climate Change Dispatch 10/21/2019

New York’s chief energy regulator, the Public Service Commission, is reluctantly admitting that the state faces a natural-gas shortage, though the commissioners disagree on what to do about it.

Even Commissioner Tracey Edwards, who devoted much of her time at last week’s meeting to complaining that utility National Grid had been “mean” in declaring a moratorium on natural-gas hookups in a major service area, admitted, “We have capacity issues.”

Commissioner John Howard was franker: “We need more gas. That’s an undeniable fact.”

But only Commissioner Diane Burman seemed willing to admit the state has made things worse by “not making decisions we need to make.”

This will boost carbon emissions by forcing greater use of “dirtier” fuels: “We will have the need for switching interruptible customers off of gas onto oil, isn’t that right?” she asked PSC engineer John Sano, who was there to advise on technical issues and confirmed that staff is on it.

More: https://climatechangedispatch.com/ny-man-made-natural-gas-crisis/

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I note nowhere in article does it mention the ban on fraccing that the state of NY has in place as contributing to this problem.

The largest gas field ever discovered in the US underlies New York and the state will not allow its development, while Pennsylvania prospers.

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Assemblyman William Colton (D-B’klynBrooklyn), has declared that National Grid is faking the shortage so that it can stockpile fuel to sell to other states when the city goes to 100 percent renewable energy, a shift he seems to think this is imminent.

NYC has made almost no shift towards 100% renewable energy. It isn't imminent. It is many decades away, if at all.
The original intent of the pipeline ban was to FORCE residents to find some way to use renewable sources BEFORE the gas became scare.

That didn't happen, did it sports fans?

This is an intended consequence. The last thing that the present NYC leadership will offer is more pipeline capacity.

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NYC has made almost no shift towards 100% renewable energy. It isn't imminent. It is many decades away, if at all.
The original intent of the pipeline ban was to FORCE residents to find some way to use renewable sources BEFORE the gas became scare.

That didn't happen, did it sports fans?

This is an intended consequence. The last thing that the present NYC leadership will offer is more pipeline capacity.

That doesn't just affect New York, though, but anyone on 'the other side' of New York from the midcontinent supplies of oil and gas. Oil and refined products can still be shipped in by train or water, and while Natural Gas can, also, the pipeline is the most cost effective, safest way to do so. Anything else costs more, a hidden tax on everyone north of the PA State line.