Aquidneck Island (highlighted in tan)
The chickens are now coming home to roost in Communist Rhode Island. In 2021, the state voted to phase out the use of all fossil energy by everyone in the state by 2050–the so-called Act on Climate. Now that the state’s Energy Facility Siting Board is attempting to take the first baby steps to comply by blocking new gas hookups on Aquidneck Island, communities on the island are voting to resist the hookup ban, claiming other communities "up the pipeline" are not being asked to sacrifice their new hookups. It's all devolving into a major food fight.
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