WILLIAMS TAKES $145M WRITEOFF Stop The Pipeline Declares Victory – But Is It Final? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Stop the Pipeline website declared “ding-dong, the witch is dead” after receiving the news in an e-mail sent out overnight by by attorney Anne Marie Garti of Stop The Pipeline. It declared: “Williams, the major investor in the proposed Constitution Pipeline, has written off its investment and stated that it has halted its investment in the project.” She…
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6 L.I. Democratic Senators Back Pipeline, Report Says ALBANY — The six Democratic state senators from Long Island are urging state regulators to conditionally approve a pipeline to bring natural gas to the downstate area, citing the negative impacts from a moratorium imposed by National Grid, Politico NY is reporting. The senators are supporting what’s called the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement Project, which is an expansion of the existing Transco pipeline. Williams is also initiator of the Constitution Pipeline, which…
EDITORIAL NAYSAYERS NEED TO BE AYE-SAYERS If Not Constitution Pipeline, Then What? As any one of you who have been there know, Owego’s a delightful community, rich with history – Belva Lockwood, the first woman presidential candidate, taught there. Fine mansions line the Susquehanna River. There’s a funky, arts-oriented downtown. A half-block off Main and Front streets, however, you see the rot. Solid homes are in disarray; when the money’s not there, maintenance is the first thing to go. There…
CLICK FOR TEXT OF FERC ORDER Constitution Pipeline Lives, FERC Decides DEC Decision On Stream Beds Overturned By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Constitution Pipeline is back from what many thought was the dead. Two weeks ago, FERC – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – issued an order that allows the 125-mile Constitution to proceed without the water-quality permits denied in April 2016 by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The water-quality permits were necessary for the…
CLICK TO READ FERC ORDER FERC Removes Barrier To Constitution Pipeline FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has issued an order overruling the State of New York’s 2016 decision blocking the Constitution Pipeline. The order will be challenged, but if upheld it would allow pipeline construction from Northeast Pennsylvania to Cobleskill. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON NEWSSTANDS THROUGH COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON…
As NY State Spends, Counties Can Expect Cuts, Seward Warns Senator Briefs Reps, Q&A Follows By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The state Legislature’s ambitions are going to be paid for at the local level. That could be the lesson members of the Otsego County Board of Representatives took way from the Q&A this morning when state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, reported as follows at the board’s monthly meeting: • The state Legislature has reduced AIM funding…
Editorial for September 28, 2018 Balance Today’s Energy Needs, Tomorrow’s Energy Wishes It’s a great idea. In a column at the end of August, Adrian Kuzminski – citing the Tompkins County Energy Roadmap, completed in March – wrote, “Let me suggest … that the Otsego County Board of Representatives, in a bi-partisan spirit, is the logical authority to establish an Otsego Energy Task Force. A large, diverse umbrella group is far more likely to develop a comprehensive, viable energy strategy…
Column by Adrian Kuzminski, August 24, 2018 Let’s Take Control Of Our Energy Future Recently, nearly 100 people crowded the Oneonta Town Hall to respond to a report by Otsego Now head, Jody Zakrevsky, about the controversial gas decompression station proposed for Oneonta. The backlash was overwhelming. A long series of speakers unanimously condemned the project and demanded instead a full-scale effort to transition to renewables as soon as possible. As the speakers pointed out, a myriad of solutions exist…
Column by Mike Zagata for August 17, 2018 Exotic? Natural Gas As Common As … Manure It’s amazing that the natural gas opponents all talk about wanting to protect the environment by moving from natural gas to “renewables.” Is it that they are misinformed or have an agenda? It’s difficult to tell, but here’s what the science tells us. Natural gas, or methane, is naturally occurring. It is emitted from volcanoes, manure piles and humans. It is the cleanest burning…
Editorial, July 27, 2018 Do We Divert XNG Trucks Now – Or After First Fatality? On the surface, the argument makes sense, (sort of). Boston-based Xpress Natural Gas’ trucks, carrying fuel from fracking fields in Northeastern Pennsylvania across Otsego County to the Iroquois Pipeline near Little Falls, are legal carriers and should be allow to use New York State roads just like any other legal carrier. After all, what’s next? Should we then ban oil tankers? Suburban Propane delivery trucks?…