News Archive - November 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
How much of a role will Feds play in power line decision?
The federal government says it will only be supplementing a state’s authority to accept or reject a power line, although it’s given
itself the power to override it.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
PSC chair to become lobbyist
The chairman of the state Public Service Commission, William M. Flynn, will step down Thursday to join a law firm representing
clients in energy and telecommunications.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Politicians say they'll continue fighting NYRI
With elections behind them, some constituents are waiting to see if the true colors of area politicians still include a flashing red, calling for the NYRI power line project to be halted and curbed.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
NYRI faces opposition from Democrats
Facing increasingly long odds in Albany, the massive power line project known as the New York Regional Interconnection might also
soon encounter a powerful obstacle in Washington: a Democratic majority.
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Commission: Let NYRI details advance at own pace
Attempts to have New York Regional Interconnect provide additional details of its plan for a 1,200-megawatt power line have rebuffed for now as state regulators recommend that parties asking for more immediate release of information from sponsors allow the Public Service Commission proceedings to advance at its own pace.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
PSC demands more info for NYRI application
New York Regional Interconnect Inc. can add a few more items to an already hefty “to do list” in regards to proving its 200-mile long power line is a worthy project.
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
Citizens groups call on officials to renew fight against power line
Citizens' groups opposed to New York Regional Interconnect's proposed 400,000-volt electric transmission line have called on elected officials to renew their opposition to the 200-mile-long project.
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
Department of Energy Announces Plans for Additional Comment Period
Under Section 1221(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Department of Energy must issue a report based on the Department's
August 8 Congestion Study.
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Citizen groups still fighting NYRI
When the man who will become the next governor of New York State says a project is dead, people tend to take him at his word.
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Sunday, November 5, 2006
The power behind NYRI
Toronto — To those whose homes and businesses would lie in the shadow of 11-story electric transmission pylons, the $1.6 billion New York Regional Interconnection is a project of unimaginable size and complexity.
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LATEST ON POWER LINE
As long as he's the next governor, Attorney General Elliot Spitzer says the 190-mile-long power line that would slice through our region will never be built.
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Power-to-the-people moments
Hardly anyone could have predicted the amount of fierce and sudden opposition to the power line.
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Thursday, November 2, 2006
Power-line lease case argued in Supreme Court
UTICA - Four attorneys did legal battle Wednesday in state Supreme Court over a power line company's attempt to keep its lease agreement with a railway company private.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Power Line Fight 'Not Over'
Eve Ann Shwartz knows the meaning of the phrase "not in my backyard." The 190-mile-long line proposed by New York Regional Interconnect would cut through much of Brookfield, Hamilton and Shwartz's 125-head beef farm.
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