Oklahoma’s Williams Company is closer to learning whether New York State might approve its bid to build a 37-mile natural gas pipeline and extend it underwater from New Jersey.
The Tulsa-firm has been shut out three previous times, 2018, 2019, and 2020 to build the Northeast Supply Enhancement project, or NESE. After making application over the past several weeks following an apparent change of heart by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Williams awaits the August 16 end of the public comment period. Williams also applied to build the Constitution pipeline.
There might have been some old fashioned political arm twisting involved by President Trump, something Gov. Hochul denies doing. Still, the pieces fit because when the White House lifted a stop-work order on a major offshore wind project off Long Island, Hochul relented and committed to, in her words, “work with the Administration and private entities on new energy projects.” Within days, Williamsrevealed it was reapplying for approval from New York regulators for NESE and the even larger Constitution Pipeline project, reported New York Focus.
No matter how many times Gov. Hochul denies there was a deal made with the White House to finally allow natural gas to be piped into the state, others argue differently. Such as the CEO of the Norwegian company building the offshore wind farm who told the Financial Times in June that the gas-for-wind deal was Hochul’s “angle.”
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