Will ‘Clean Energy Community’ Status Help Us? Reps Ask – All Otsego

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Will 'Clean Energy

Community' Status

Help Us? Reps Ask

Or Will It Limit Natural-Gas Options,

They Say In Voting To Delay Action

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

County Planning Director Karen Sullivan told county reps she will seek to clarify what it means to take the "Climate Smart Communities Pledge." (Jim Kevlin/AllOTESGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – Is New York State's "Climate Smart Communities Pledge" going to limit Otsego County's economic-development future?

Failing to get an answer to that question, the county Board of Representatives this morning – by voice vote, apparently unanimous – decided to delay action on making that pledge for at least a month.

"How does this make our county better?" asked county Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla. "What's the purpose of this?" He wondered if this would preclude efforts to fill a shortfall in natural gas supplies that Otsego Now, the county economic-development agency, is pursuing. "Does it hurt or help?"

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