Anti-NYRI group gets nearly half-million from senate for power line fight
NORWICH – Communities Against Regional Interconnect, the eight-county alliance taking on the NYRI power line, today received $418,000 of $1 million in state money first promised when the fight began over a year and a half ago.
“It’s much needed and we appreciate them coming through with the money as promised,” said Chenango County’s CARI representative Donna M. Jones. “It was well worth the wait.”
The money was promised by a group of state Senators in the spring of 2006 at a press conference in the Chenango County Office Building. It was held up, according to Senator Jim Seward (R-Oneonta), in the state Attorney General’s and Comptroller’s Office over contract issues.
“When NYRI first reared its ugly utility pole, Republican senators representing the affected counties stepped up, stood with our constituents, and pledged $1 million in financial support to local communities fighting the power line,” Seward said. “Today, I am pleased to say that a substantial down payment on our pledge has been delivered.”
The senate funding is routed through “Mohawk Valley EDGE,” a nonprofit in Oneida County that handles the funding for CARI, according to press release from Seward and Senator Tom Libous (R-Binghamton). CARI represents Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Orange and Sullivan counties. Each county has already pledged roughly $100,000 to CARI’s cause.
The money will go toward legal expenses CARI incurs while challenging New York Regional Interconnect’s power line project during its review with the state’s Public Service Commission. Gilberti, Stinziano and Heintz, a law firm out of Syracuse, is currently represent the anti-NYRI group.
NYRI is proposing to build a $1.6 million power line from Oneida to Orange County that would split 44 miles of Chenango.
“NYRI’s power line scheme would hurt our picturesque rural landscape, reduce our property values and potentially increase the cost of our power in Chenango and Broome Counties and across our entire region,” said Senator Libous, saying that he and his colleagues “are committed to fighting NYRI every step of the way to stop the power line from going up.”
NYRI has yet to file a complete review application with the PSC. NYRI has asked that agency to overturn a law Libous and Seward co-sponsored that blocks the company’s use of eminent domain.
Seward has asked that the Assembly step up with funding for upcoming legal fees if the fight stretches on for a lengthy amount of time.
“With the senate money moving, we hope that the assembly majority will step up and provide funding for the next round of the communities’ battle to stop the unnecessary monstrosity of a power line from being sited,” Seward said.
“It’s much needed and we appreciate them coming through with the money as promised,” said Chenango County’s CARI representative Donna M. Jones. “It was well worth the wait.”
The money was promised by a group of state Senators in the spring of 2006 at a press conference in the Chenango County Office Building. It was held up, according to Senator Jim Seward (R-Oneonta), in the state Attorney General’s and Comptroller’s Office over contract issues.
“When NYRI first reared its ugly utility pole, Republican senators representing the affected counties stepped up, stood with our constituents, and pledged $1 million in financial support to local communities fighting the power line,” Seward said. “Today, I am pleased to say that a substantial down payment on our pledge has been delivered.”
The senate funding is routed through “Mohawk Valley EDGE,” a nonprofit in Oneida County that handles the funding for CARI, according to press release from Seward and Senator Tom Libous (R-Binghamton). CARI represents Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Orange and Sullivan counties. Each county has already pledged roughly $100,000 to CARI’s cause.
The money will go toward legal expenses CARI incurs while challenging New York Regional Interconnect’s power line project during its review with the state’s Public Service Commission. Gilberti, Stinziano and Heintz, a law firm out of Syracuse, is currently represent the anti-NYRI group.
NYRI is proposing to build a $1.6 million power line from Oneida to Orange County that would split 44 miles of Chenango.
“NYRI’s power line scheme would hurt our picturesque rural landscape, reduce our property values and potentially increase the cost of our power in Chenango and Broome Counties and across our entire region,” said Senator Libous, saying that he and his colleagues “are committed to fighting NYRI every step of the way to stop the power line from going up.”
NYRI has yet to file a complete review application with the PSC. NYRI has asked that agency to overturn a law Libous and Seward co-sponsored that blocks the company’s use of eminent domain.
Seward has asked that the Assembly step up with funding for upcoming legal fees if the fight stretches on for a lengthy amount of time.
“With the senate money moving, we hope that the assembly majority will step up and provide funding for the next round of the communities’ battle to stop the unnecessary monstrosity of a power line from being sited,” Seward said.
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