CT: Lawmakers push for clean energy department

HARTFORD – A group of lawmakers, including state Rep. Terry Backer, D-Stratford, yesterday called for the creation of a new Department of Clean Energy to help the state reduce its dependence on oil.

“The days of plentiful, cheap oil are drawing to an end,” Backer told reporters during an afternoon news conference. “It isn’t a question of whether we will switch to a clean-energy economy, but when.”


Backer also is executive director of Norwalk-based Soundkeeper, a 20-year-old organization working to protect Long Island Sound.

He has been trying to sound the alarm over the concept of “peak oil” – when there are no new oil supplies left to be tapped.

Stamford Advocate