while on his visit to the Wethersfield Wind Project
12/27/2008
Iberdrola Plots Asset Sale
| Iberdrola has submitted a divestiture plan to the New York Public Service Commission for approval to sell five assets as part of its EUR6.091 billion ($8.49 billion) acquisition of Energy East. The company is seeking approval to sell: * 275 MW coal-fired Russell Station in Greece, N.Y., that permanently ... |
12/16/2008
Path of power lines revised
| Upstate NY Power Corp. will soon apply for a state certificate for a greatly revised transmission line to connect the proposed Galloo Island Wind Farm to the state grid. Upstate NY Power ran a public notice in the Watertown Daily Times on Monday, a required step before submitting an application for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need from the state Public Service Commission. The notice said the application would be filed on or around Dec. 31. The new map shows a route that, after landfall, runs much closer to Henderson Bay, then runs south and east of Belleville, possibly using a former electric power line right of way. Instead of running to Albion and Parish, the new route goes through the village of Pulaski into the town of Mexico. The old route generally was farther to the west. In some spots, the new route is well east of the old one. (Click to read the entire article) |
11/24/2008
$19,000 Electric Car Coming to US in May 2009: Introducing the Wheego Whip
 It looks surprisingly like a Smart Car and frankly has one of the dumbest names I’ve ever come across, but the $19,000 all-electric RTEV (Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles) Wheego Whip will be available in the United States in May 2009.The Wheego Whip can reach a maximum speed of about 70 mph, but until it passes crash tests by the US DoT, expected sometime in 2010, it will be released initially as a Low Speed Vehicle (25 mph maximum speed) or a Medium Speed Vehicle (35 mph max). RTEV says that the Whip can travel 50 miles on single 8-hour charge, from any standard household 110 or 220v outlet. |
Iberdrola begins acquisition
| BINGHAMTON -- Energy East has transferred 11 parcels in Broome County to Iberdrola for $24.2 million as part of its acquisition by the Spanish energy company. Iberdrola's associated transfer tax payment -- $120,889 -- is the largest in recent history, county Clerk Richard R. Blythe said. "I don't recall one larger," he said. "I mean, you're buying all of NYSEG." The transfer is part of a larger, $208.8 million transaction including Energy East properties outside of Broome, Blythe said. (Click to read entire article) |
11/21/2008
Massa accepts election victory
| Congressman-elect Eric Massa, D-Corning, announced this morning that he accepts victory in the 29th Congressional District election. “It’s my honor and I stand before you deeply humbled to accept the victory as your next congressman, 29th Congressional District, in the 111th Congress,” Massa told supporters and media packing his campaign office at 79 E. Market St. in Corning. The remark received a round of applause. His margin of victory was about 5,000 votes, he said. “I made a commitment during the course of the election that I wanted every ballot counted before I accepted this victory. It’s my understanding every ballot has now been counted and the decision has been made. But I have no illusions. This was a close election, and we obviously have a great deal of work to do. That work is going to center on the problems that we have,” he said. (Click to read entire article) |
11/18/2008
DEC Taking Comments On Natural Gas Drilling
| With gas companies rushing to drill in New York, many are pushing for the state government to step in and regulate the industry. Representatives from the state's Department of Environmental Conservation held this public comment session tonight at Broome Community College. The DEC wrote a draft of all the possible regulations and problems involved with the gas industry, called a scope. It's now looking to the public to give them insight on things they may have missed. (Click to read entire article) |
11/14/2008
State urged not to stifle gas drilling
| Local politicians urged New York state Thursday night not to impose, in the words of Sen. George H. Winner Jr., R-Elmira, "unreasonable, unfair regulations" on natural gas drilling that could drive away a potential economic stimulus in the Southern Tier. But several residents at a public hearing expressed concerns about drilling's effect on water tables. "Many of us rely on individual drinking wells for our water," said Robin De Lill-Stroman of Chemung. The differing views concerned a draft scope for an environmental impact statement about natural gas drilling in New York. (Click to read entire article) |
11/10/2008
First gas-drilling sites around the Southern Tier show promise, problems
| The natural gas industry taking root in Susquehanna County is already meeting expectations for eye-popping economic returns and potential environmental headaches. |
11/09/2008
Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes
| Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground. The US government has licensed the technology to Hyperion, a New Mexico-based company which said last week that it has taken its first firm orders and plans to start mass production within five years. 'Our goal is to generate electricity for 10 cents a watt anywhere in the world,' said John Deal, chief executive of Hyperion. 'They will cost approximately $25m [£13m] each. For a community with 10,000 households, that is a very affordable $250 per home.' Deal claims to have more than 100 firm orders, largely from the oil and electricity industries, but says the company is also targeting developing countries and isolated communities. 'It's leapfrog technology,' he said. (Click to read entire article) |
11/07/2008
NYRI is blasted at state hearing
| NORWICH - Residents of Chenango and its surrounding counties took aim at NYRI on Thursday afternoon during a hearing held at the Council of the Arts auditorium in Norwich. The hearing was held by the state's Public Service Commission. NYRI, short for New York Regional Interconnection, has proposed a 400,000-volt, 10-story tall direct-current power line that would run from Marcy in Oneida County to New Windsor in Orange County. Various proposed routes could take the line through sections of Delaware, Chenango and Otsego counties. Opponents, like Dr. Glenn Stein of Norwich, see the project purely as a scheme to enrich investors. Stein, who testified Thursday, told two administrative law judges, ``The only thing green about NYRI is the money they're going to make.'' (Click to read entire article) |
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