President Donald Trump accused New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday of reneging on a pipelines-for-wind deal reportedly reached last year so that work on an offshore wind project could resume.
“We’re getting held up by the governor of New York,” Trump said about the Constitution pipeline after Monday’s NBA finals game. “She made a deal with us to allow us to build it and she’s holding it up, and Connecticut is suffering and all of New England is suffering, and upstate New York is really suffering.”
The White House last year said Hochul, a Democrat running for reelection, “caved” to Trump on a pair of gas pipelines so that construction on the Empire Wind 1 project could restart, a charge that Hochul’s office has repeatedly denied. One of the pipelines broke ground earlier this year, but the second — the Williams Companies’ Constitution pipeline project — is still working to get federal energy regulators to reissue the project’s certificate.
The proposed Constitution pipeline would start in northeastern Pennsylvania and end in upstate New York.
