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High-Voltage Cable Path for Clean Energy Plan Raises Cortlandt’s Ire
A plan to run a high-voltage cable from upstate to New York City to help New York State drastically cut carbon emissions has Cortlandt officials deeply troubled about the safety of their community.
The $11 billion clean energy initiative Clean Path NY project would construct 175 miles of underground and underwater high-voltage cable starting in Delaware County and may pass through Lents Cove in Buchanan on its way southward to its termination point in Queens.
“This is unacceptable,” Cortlandt Supervisor Richard Becker said at the July 19 Town Board meeting. “We are going to fight this one.”
Becker cited the close proximity of the planned cable to the underground Algonquin gas pipeline and the massive amounts of radioactive spent fuel rods at the decommissioned Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. He warned of the combined risk of three major energy sources traversing the same territory.
Clean Path NY is a partnership with the New York Power Authority (NYPA), Invenergy, which develops, owns and operates power generation utilities, and energyRe. In a recent meeting with NYPA Director Anthony Hill and Matt Powers, director of community affairs at Invenergy, Becker said he objected to bringing the cable out of the Hudson River at Lents Cove.
“Clean Path was insistent that the cable had to come out at Lents Cove,” he said. “They told me ‘Too bad, we’re big New York State with $11 billion behind us. You’re not going to stop it.’”
The exchange prompted Becker to write a letter to Powers and Hill detailing the town’s safety concerns for communities that would be impacted if the cable surfaced at Lent’s Cove. He made it clear that the Town of Cortlandt was tired of “repeatedly being excessively identified as a site for projects involving energy.” READ MORE AT https://www.theexaminernews.com/high-voltage-cable-path-for-clean-energy-plan-raises-cortlandts-ire/
and THE GAZETTE ARTICLE
THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: PLANS FOR UNDERWATER/UNDERGROUND HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE UNVEILED, CLEAN PATH
Activists in Croton and Cortlandt lobbed for years to shut down Indian Point. Here's a chance to reduce the carbon footprint. It's only natural this company would expect a warm welcome here given the history.
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