Newport City Council Workshop- Aquidneck Island Natural Gas Moratorium

Newport City Council (workshop convened by Energy and Environment Commission) · October 29, 2025

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A workshop is being held to discuss the moratorium on new natural gas hookups in Newport.

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Newport held a public workshop to discuss a proposed moratorium on new natural‑gas hookups to Aquidneck Island after a 2019 outage and an extended operating permit for the Old Mill Lane LNG backup. Experts, advocacy groups, the local utilityrepresentative and city staff outlined tradeoffs: supporters said a moratorium would limit long‑lived fossil infrastructure and protect residents from future outages and rising gas costs; the utility urged caution and local input, and staff described permit and street impacts from new services. No vote was taken; the council gathered information to inform a later decision.

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