National Grid Threatens New Gas Hookup Moratorium for Downstate NY
As Yogi Berra once quipped, this feels like déjà vu all over again. In 2019 New York City and Long Island experienced an epic showdown with National Grid, which supplies natural gas to all of Long Island including Brooklyn and Queens. National Grid slapped a moratorium on new gas hookups due to short supplies and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s blocking of a pipeline to bring more supplies to the region. After extreme blowback from customers, Cuomo threatened to rip National Grid’s franchise away and give it to someone else unless they paid $30 million in bribes and started hooking up new customers again. National Grid caved and the bad guy, Cuomo, won (see Andrew “Don Corleone” Cuomo Extorts National Grid, Wins Pipe Battle). Once again National Grid is sounding the alarm that they likely will need to restrict new gas hookups. A new battle is brewing.
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