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Catskill Mountainkeeper joins fight against NYRI

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Catskill Mountainkeeper joins fight against NYRI

Press Release

Youngsville -- Catskill Mountainkeeper has joined several other environmental advocacy organizations and state officials by filing a rehearing petition contesting the Department of Energy's designation of two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors. The preservation group’s action is on response to New York Regional Interconnection’s proposed plan to build a power line from Oneida County to Orange County.
One main argument stressed in the rehearing is that the "DOE did not effectively communicate with states in determining the corridors." Along with that argument the Department of Energy has not yet completed an Environmental Impact Statement on the corridor designations, the Catskills group said."The Department of Energy, in its ruling regarding NYRI, has not complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, or the Federal Power Act by designating these NIETCs," Catskill Mountainkeeper Executive Director Ramsay Adams said. "Catskill Mountainkeeper is committed to fighting on behalf of the communities in the regions affected by this proposal." The group said the NYRI power line would run some 190 miles and “undermine our region’s fragile economic development (and) permanently devastate and displace local wildlife, including endangered and threatened species.”

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