Commentary: Natural Gas Supply Is Critical to Our Growth

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On Long Island, while we are provided electric service by our public authority utility LIPA, natural gas distribution is the responsibility of the private purveyor National Grid. However, neither has control of or appears responsible for ensuring an adequate natural gas supply to Nassau and Suffolk, notwithstanding Keyspan/National Grid's participation in the Iroquois Pipeline and the defeated Islander East Pipeline.

Instead, it appears we are dependent upon the interests and investments of private fuel suppliers and pipeline companies to actually get approved, construct and operate infrastructure to supply us with natural gas. This paradigm clearly constrains Long Island's ability to have an adequate and reasonably priced supply of natural gas to support our on-Island generating facilities, as well as conversions from heating oil to natural gas and overall growth.

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Commentary: Natural Gas Supply Is Critical to Our Growth

We have now seen Connecticut defeat the proposed Islander East Pipeline. Islander East had been deemed by the Long Island Regional Planning Coun...

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