The Healy administration remains a staunch opponent of natural gas as a new poll suggests that the Gulf Statistics prefers energy over renewable energy, and the federal government aims to restore a pipeline project that could reduce utility costs by $1 billion. [emphasis, links added]
Governor Maura Healey [Massachusetts-D]In the past few months, a renewable energy advocate, especially wind, especially wind, has soared the cost of utilities over the past few months due to the combination of cold winters and the state’s decarbonization agenda.
The governor responded by creating a plan that she said would eventually cut billions of dollars from taxpayer bills and ordered the state DPU to require utilities to reduce costs by at least 5% over the rest of the heating season.
Utilities approve interest rate hikes of over 30% for major gas companies in the stateEversourse and Natural Grid, last fall.
As Bay States struggles to deal with high bills, a new poll by the Nonpartisan oversees the Fiscal Alliance Foundation suggests that possible voters may be more popular than a full commitment to renewable energy.
Of the 800 voters who participated in the poll earlier this month, about 47% supported building new pipelines into the state, while 37% chose to push renewable energy entirely.
Among the respondents, 48.2% were independent, 40.6% were Democrats and 11.1% were Republicans.
Healy critics accused the state legislature of the mission of the Bay State state to transition to renewable energy with high utility costs in winter, accusing the governor of “killing” two gas pipeline projects as attorney general over the past decade.
“Obviously, AG does try to stop the pipeline – she brags on the campaign,” said Paul Diego Craney, executive director of the Fiscal Union, in a briefing on Friday. “It seems that was coming back to bother her.”
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