Governor Healey Suggests Big Oil Undermining New Power Networks

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey suggested the fossil-fuel industry may be behind efforts to undermine the state’s transition toward renewable energy.

Answering questions Tuesday at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce event, Healey said, “Some of the efforts to — I can’t prove this yet — foment some of the opposition around the siting of necessary infrastructure, including substations for offshore wind coming onshore — I just question.”

“I think we need to really push back at some of what is at play here and what is going on in the fossil-fuel industry’s last-gasp effort to do all they ...