Now is the time for all good Greenwich Democrats to unhook from the grid, give away their gas stoves, and use their windmills and solar panels to power with zero-carbon energy

Hartford’s housing mandates, infrastructure bans overwhelm utilities

First Selectman Camillo announced an urgent press conference scheduled Friday, July 24, at 1pm at Town Hall, calling for an immediate moratorium on zoning mandates from Hartford.  CNG, Aquarion and Eversource have informed him that they are running out of capacity to serve new high density affordable housing as well as local homeowner renovations and new school buildings.  Info here.

A press conference will be held outside Greenwich Town Hall on Friday, July 24, at 1 p.m.

This comes after First Selectman Camillo recently discovered that Connecticut Natural Gas does not have the infrastructure to meet the demands of new and expanded housing in Greenwich. Similar issues have also come to light in subsequent conversations he had with Aquarion Water Company.

This lack of capacity for Connecticut’s utilities makes clear the strain that Greenwich and other communities are facing due to the mandates from Hartford that circumvent the approval and input from local zoning authorities.

First Selectman Camillo is also working on finalizing details of a public forum with CNG, Aquarion and Eversource in September at Greenwich Town Hall.

This is an issue that affects all Connecticut municipalities and Greenwich was just the first to discover the problem.

“The burdensome housing mandates that have been placed throughout the State of Connecticut have now taxed our infrastructure to the point that we can no longer keep up,” First Selectman Camillo said. “We understand the need for housing in Connecticut but when it is done through mandates and demands from Hartford and not with the careful consideration of local zoning authorities, utility companies and local municipal public works and sewer departments, you create problems like this. A moratorium on zoning mandates throughout the State of Connecticut is immediately needed so work can be done to improve infrastructure and better meet the demand in the State.”

Greenwich Greens are just part of the massive coalition of Democrats and even some RINOs that has blocked construction of new natural gas pipelines and electricity transmission corridors and denied utilities the money necessary to build out their infrastructure, all while mandating the construction of massive apartment buildings, presumably to be powered by windmill and solar farms (if the builders of same can get around the state’s ever-increasing regulations restricting the use of farmland).

The only fair solution that I can see is for the Global Warmists to immediately cease their consumption of fossil fuels, disconnect from the grid, and generate their own electricity, thereby freeing up the existing utilities capacity for use by the deserving poor.

Who will go first?