Category: Natural Gas
CNG Damages Non-Customer’s Credit Rating
In these days of tight mortgage lending standards, getting your home refinanced can be a real challenge, even if you have equity and good credit. Tim McCarroll of Cromwell faces an additional hurdle: Connecticut Natural Gas damaged his outstanding credit rating by incorrectly telling credit rating agencies that McCarroll was a deadbeat. And when McCarroll [...]
Yankee Gas Won’t Let Customer Go, Likes Charging Monthly Fee For Nothing
Gerald Augustine of Middletown was preparing to make more use of his garage, so three years ago he had natural gas service from Yankee Gas brought to his property. He changed his mind and never used the gas line. But getting the service was much easier than stopping it. He said he paid the monthly [...]
United Illuminating To Purchase Natural Gas Companies
United Illuminating, which serves electric customers in Southern Connecticut, is purchaseing The Southern Connecticut Gas Company (SCG), Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation (CNG) and The Berkshire Gas Company (Berkshire) for $1.3 billion. If approved by state regulators, the acquisitions are expected to take place next winter. It will then create a diversified energy delivery company with [...]
Connecticut Check Not In The Mail For Operation Fuel
Bloomfield, Conn. – With less than $65,000 remaining for emergency energy assistance and utility shut off notices in the mail, Operation Fuel Executive Director Patricia Wrice is hoping that the state of Connecticut releases the $1 million it approved two weeks ago for emergency energy assistance before countless households begin to lose their utilities. Otherwise, [...]
CNG & SNG Get Green Light For Layoffs
Connecticut public utility regulators have given a tentative green light to Connecticut Natural Gas and Southern Connecticut Gas to lay off 65 workers. The layoffs were opposed by state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who claimed the layoffs were endanger consumer service and safety. “My office will file formal comments strongly encouraging the DPUC to reconsider [...]
Buderus Savings Claims: Put Salt On It
Buderus furnaces are highly recommended by heating oil companies, but sprinkle a lot of salt on advertisements that promise huge savings. For instance, former TV weatherman Hilton Kaderli has been shilling for Homestead Fuel in Ellington, Conn., and Buderus for years with large ads in The Courant promising “SAVE UP TO 35% THIS WINTER WITH [...]
$21 Million Bonus And Proposed Layoffs Don’t Mix Well
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today publicly criticized the parent company of Connecticut Natural Gas (CNG) and Southern Connecticut Gas (SCG) for wanting to lay off 67 workers to save $5 million after providing more than $21 million to one retired executive. “Corporate greed is way too common — but here it sacrifices safe and reliable service in [...]
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