New HampsHire
OHCNH To push For ULs Heating Oil
As reported last month, the Oil Heat
Council of New Hampshire has been
considering supporting a move to bring
a low-sulfur requirement to the state. A
meeting held on Nov. 13 has set this as a
formal policy goal. OHCNH Executive
Director Robert J. Sculley announced the
following: A meeting of the membership of
the Oil Heat Council of New Hampshire was
held yesterday in Concord to discuss ultra-low
sulfur heating oil. The meeting was attended
by dealers and wholesalers. The purpose of
the meeting was to see if the membership
of the council could come up with a united
position regarding a position in support of low-
sulfur heating oil in New Hampshire. New
Hampshire is the only New England state
without a deadline on reducing its sulfur con-
tent. The attendees at the meeting expressed a
desire to have conformity in the fuel product
throughout all of the New England states.
The meeting lasted approximately 1 ½ hours.
It was unanimously decided by all in atten-
dance that the OHCNH would seek legislation
to have the state of New Hampshire transi-
tion to 15ppm (with no intermediate step of
500ppm) heating oil by July 1, 2018. In addi-
tion, the members present at that meeting asked
me to get this info out to the entire membership
to seek input and feedback from our members
that were not at the meeting.
Please feel free to contact me with your
thoughts on this very important topic.
New YOrk
Two Upstate New York Heating Oil
associations Unite To establish
the Upstate New York energy
association
T h e O i l H e a t
Institute of Eastern
New York and Oil
Fuel Institute of Central New York have
merged to establish a new trade group that
shall henceforth be known as the Upstate
New York Energy Association.
The merger brings together two heat-
ing industry institutes that had existed
side-by-side since the 1960s. OHIENY was
organized in 1964, following a consolidation
of groups in Troy, Albany, Mohawk Valley,
and Fulton and Montgomery counties.
That association later expanded to include
Oilheat dealers in 19 additional counties
throughout upstate New York. The Oneida
County based OFICNY had been registered
as a domestic not- for-profit corporation
just two years earlier, in 1962.
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