In the upcoming review of the state energy policy(CES), the administration, legislature and energy bureaucracy(DEEP and PURA) must stop the underwriting, on the tab of the utility ratepayer, of home and business heating methane conversions, enhanced or new interstate methane pipelines, and associated new methane burning power plants.
The state’s methane policy (the current main driver of its energy plan) has been demonstrated as nonviable from a business/ratepayer standpoint-as the collapse of the gas/oil price spread has undermined the ratepayer savings that were to recompense them for the buildout costs for which they are ultimately billed. Environmentally, it is a also detrimental for many reasons: the basic one being that it will commit CT to fracked methane when we need to switch to more business friendly and responsible renewable energy-which is ready to go with a little government cooperation.
At the very least, CT ratepayers, gas and/or electric, should not have to be on the hook for this unjustified, irresponsible venture. Stop letting entrenched fossil fuel interests play with CT ratepayer house money.
Why is this important?
As a CT citizen and ratepayer, I am angry that my money is being used to hijack CT global warming mitigation and renewable energy efforts and underwrite, at the same time, fracking to the west of us.
I also worry about the waste water from the fracking fields that will be seeking a home here unless the fracking is stopped.
