Monday’s fatal truck accident near Binghamton was a perverse result of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policy of blocking natural gas pipelines.

The crash killed the driver and, since the truck was carrying compressed natural gas, forced the evacuation of dozens of nearby homes as a safety precaution.

As the Empire Center’s Ken Girardin notes, the truck was part of a “virtual pipeline” that carries gas “from Pennsylvania to a compressor station in Herkimer County between Utica and Schenectady — roughly the same route that would have been served by the proposed Constitution pipeline.”

That’s the pipeline the Cuomo administration blocked in 2016 by nixing state permits. The gov’s policy is a nod to “keep it in the ground” extremists — but it doesn’t do that: Instead, the market finds other ways to get fuel to where it’s wanted.

Less safe and more expensive ways, and ones that mean more carbon emissions.

Cuomo’s anti-pipeline ways have also created a gas shortage in Westchester — where, Girardin writes, another virtual pipeline is cropping up. We understand more trucks are carrying gas into eastern Queens these days, too — the result of another governor-caused shortage. And yet another Cuomo gas pipeline veto has left all New England burning more heating oil in the winter.

The gov may be pleasing the greens, but he’s not doing the environment any favors.