CLICK HERE TO READ DECISION CONSTITUTION LOSES ROUND Stop Pipeline Hails Decision; Company: We’ll Win In End By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A federal Court of Appeals today denied the Constitution Pipeline’s appeal of the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s 2016 decision blocking the 121-mile project intended to carry fracked gas from Northeast Pennsylvania, through Delaware County, to connect with the Iroquois Pipeline near Cobleskill. The case was argued last Nov. 16 before the Second Circuit in New…
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On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, County Backs Pipeline; Local Spruce NYC Bound In Thursday’s weekly radio report on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reported on the Otsego County Board of Representatives’ vote urging Governor Cuomo to get behind the Constitution Pipeline. Also, on excitement about an Oneonta spruce being chosen for the Rockefeller Center ice rink this year. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S REPORT …
HOT DEBATE IN BOARD ROOM COUNTY TO CUOMO: APPROVE PIPELINE Majority: No Gas, No New Jobs By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives a few minutes ago approved sending a letter to Governor Cuomo urging him to push for approval of the Constitution Pipeline. CLICK FOR TEXT OF LETTER TO GOVERNOR The weighted vote was 3,672 ayes to 2,022 nays, with one absence. Voting aye were Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla; Jim Powers, R-Butternuts;…
CLICK FOR FULL TEXT Complete Constitution Pipeline, Cuomo Asked County Board To Debate Sending Letter By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Poverty is the illness. Good jobs are the cure,” county Reps. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, and Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, state in the draft of a letter to Governor Cuomo due for consideration at the county Board of Representatives’ October meeting at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Cooperstown. The letter urges the governor to “reconsider the many benefits the Constitution Pipeline…
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DEC REJECTS CONSTITUTION No Water-Quality Permit For Pipeline The state Department of Environmental Conservation today announced it has denied the water-quality permit required for the Constitution Pipeline, blocking the 124-mile-long project for the time being. “Although DEC has granted certificates for other projects, the application by Constitution for these certificates fails to meet New York State’s water quality standards,” DEC said in a statement. At issue is the Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification. The state was required to reject…
REPORT: State To Deny Permits Pipeline Needs ALBANY — The Cuomo Administration is preparing to deny the water-quality permits for the Constitution Pipeline in what has been shaping up to be a primary test of the governor’s environmental legacy, multiple sources confirmed, according to news reports at this hour. The announcement is supposed to come this afternoon: Earth Day. HERE’S THE CAPITOL NEW YORK REPORT HERE’S THE PRESSCONNECTS REPORT WAMC REPORTS DEC WON’T OK PERMITS…
ON WAMC Natural Gas Debate Heating Up In his weekly “Morning Headlines” segment on WAMC Public Radio, Albany, Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal Editor Jim Kevlin this morning discussed op-ed pieces on natural gas and the Constitution Pipeline that appear in this week’s print editions, AND ARE REPRINTED BELOW. CLICK HERE TO HEAR THIS MORNING’S REPORT ISSUE & DEBATE New Pipeline Won’t Cure Otsego County’s Poverty Editor’s Note: Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Hartwick College.…
Online Poll Results Here are the results for our recent poll “Should the Constitution Pipeline be approved?” Click Image To Enlarge Click Here To See The Original Poll With Comments…
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