PSC to attend Stuyvesant Town Board workshop
“The Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition has urged all concerned county residents to attend the 7 p.m. meeting at Town Hall and show support.
The PSC’s scheduled appearance at tonight’s meeting comes on the heels of its recent decision to create an official order, viewable on its website, encouraging vying transmission line developers to conform their proposals to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policy that any new power lines stay within existing rights-of-way, in length, width and height.
In reaction to this decision, may of the municipalities and concerned citizen groups were cautiously optimistic.
“This marks another positive step by the PSC; however, a dark cloud continues to hang over residential, business and farm properties along proposed routes,” Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan said, in a press release. “The PSC should quickly and definitively disqualify proposals that fail to meet the governor’s criteria of staying within existing rights-of-way and solicit proposals for 21st century alternatives to new transmission towers.””
Clayton, Adam. Register Star 6 March 2014.