NY DEC Continues Delay-then-Deny Tactic re Brooklyn LNG Terminal

National Grid is desperately trying not to run out of natural gas for its customers in Brooklyn and Queens (on Long Island). For several years the company has fought a battle to run a tiny pipeline to its Greenpoint, Brooklyn facility, to provide extra natural gas. That project is being investigated by the Biden administration on charges of racism (see Woke Nation: 2nd Fed Agency Investigating Brooklyn Pipe as Racist). National Grid has a backup plan--add two extra LNG vaporizers to the Greenpoint facility to turn trucked LNG back into gas that can flow through the system. The state Dept. of Environment Conservation (DEC), which must issue an air permit for the vaporizers, is doing what it always does with fossil energy projects: repeatedly delay the decision before eventually denying the permit.

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