To: Governor Ned Lamont
Don't Let Corporations Ruin Our Clean Energy Future
Clean Water Action Connecticut
Governor Malloy: Don't let corporations ruin our clean energy future. Stand with our legislators who are working to build a clean energy future here in Connecticut and say NO to the $1 billion handout to Northeast Utilities in SB 1138. We want a future built around real, local, new clean energy, not old, environmentally damaging Canadian hydro and corporate handouts.
Why is this important?
Allies from across the environmental movement along with labor organizations, consumer organizations, businesses and communities of faith are working together to stop a major rollback to Connecticut’s clean energy commitments being pushed by Northeast Utilities lobbyists and Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection Dan Esty in Senate Bill 1138.
If they have their way, they would flood our state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (how our state buys clean energy) with old, environmentally-damaging Canadian Hydro and give a massive corporate handout of more than $1 billion to Northeast Utilities to build the Northern Pass transmission lines. That hurts the renewable industry here in Connecticut and New England and wastes ratepayer dollars on transmission lines that cut through some of New England’s most pristine landscapes.
What we need is a clean energy future built here at home with large-scale wind contracts. We need those jobs that would go to a large Canadian hydro corporation to go to small businesses here in our state. We need to be smart about our clean energy future and not waste ratepayer dollars just to pad the pockets of the utility companies.
If they have their way, they would flood our state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (how our state buys clean energy) with old, environmentally-damaging Canadian Hydro and give a massive corporate handout of more than $1 billion to Northeast Utilities to build the Northern Pass transmission lines. That hurts the renewable industry here in Connecticut and New England and wastes ratepayer dollars on transmission lines that cut through some of New England’s most pristine landscapes.
What we need is a clean energy future built here at home with large-scale wind contracts. We need those jobs that would go to a large Canadian hydro corporation to go to small businesses here in our state. We need to be smart about our clean energy future and not waste ratepayer dollars just to pad the pockets of the utility companies.