Workshops on Stockade flooding fix set for next week
“For three days next week, the community will be able to offer up ideas and hear from experts about plans to reduce flooding and ice jams along the Mohawk River in the historic Stockade…
City to discuss Moongate Water Co., at Tuesday meeting
“City councilors on Tuesday will consider rescinding a 2011 resolution in which they voted to pursue using eminent domain to take over Moongate Water Co. infrastructure. The step would be a precursor to a proposed…
Saugerties holds off on anti-pipeline resolution
“The Town Board got an earful from opponents of a proposed oil pipeline, but decided against passing a resolution to oppose the project until it receives more information. Sue Rosenberg of Citizens Against Pilgrim Pipeline…
With 121 eminent domain cases filed, another round of hearings for Constitution Pipeline
“The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is holding public hearings on whether or not to issue a permit to the Constitution Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline that seeks to break ground through…
Council to weigh downtown redevelopment tonight
“It looks like downtown will become the latest swath of local real estate to be declared a redevelopment zone, a legal definition that puts some teeth into the city’s efforts to pump new vitality into…
Meetings on pipeline plans start Monday
“Informational meetings begin Monday about a Texas-based company’s proposal to build an underground pipeline that would carry 320,000 barrels of North Dakota crude oil daily through 18 counties in Iowa. Dakota Access LLC, a unit…
Kinnelon council expected to vote on Pilgrim Pipeline Thursday
“The Borough Council expects to consider a resolution in opposition of the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline at its Nov. 20 meeting. At the Nov. 13 Borough Council work session, Mayor Robert Collins said while he publicly…
Parties seek to reform eminent domain process
“Landowners along the proposed natural gas pipeline route say they will meet next week with the governor’s executive team to ask for a moratorium on land negotiations with Vermont Gas Systems until the end of…
Eminent domain lawyer discusses issues with pipeline
“With the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, local property owners may be at risk of losing their land. Preserve the New River Valley invited Joe Waldo, an eminent domain lawyer from Norfolk, Virginia, to…
Success of pipeline may mean much to Oregon
“Two meetings are coming up that will give the public a chance to present its views on a nearly $2 billion pipeline that would cross Klamath County, if approved. If you have something to say,…