Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Williams fumbled the ball, the NRDC gang knifed the project and Cuomo strangled it with lawsuits, but heretical global warming theology enabled it all.

There’s a ton of blame to go around for the demise of the Constitution Pipeline. There’s no question Williams badly fumbled the ball while passing it back and forth with New York State’s DEP, not realizing the agency was completely under the thumb of the nation’s most blatantly political governor. It used and abused over and over again, although it did a nice job legally once it finally got into Federal court where it should have been after one year. We can also rightly complain about Williams giving up after they had essentially won legally, thus throwing the industry as a whole, not to mention the Upstate supporters, to other wolves.

We can also fault DEP staff, Governor Corruptocrat and the NRDC gang, all of whom contributed to the demise of the Constitution Pipeline. But, what enabled this sellout of Upstate? Well, it was the cover provided by global warming theology, which appeals to urban New Yorkers and they are the huge majority. I’m not talking about climate change science because that works for us. We’ve done more to lower CO2 emissions and clean the air than anything else. How many times do have to prove it? No, global warming theology is the half-baked, throughly unscientific balderdash we saw touted in the New York Times late last year, where it served as an excuse to appease the special interests who killed the Constitution.

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