Catskill Mountainkeeper: transforming the energy landscape
January 17, 2018
LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — Catskill Mountainkeeper has been one of the chief agents of change in the region’s energy landscape, via their RenewableNY program, which ains to demonstrate that a clean and prosperous future built around efficiency and renewables is well within reach. The cornerstone of this program is the Solar Outreach Initiative.
Read moreFERC Denies Constitution Pipeline Petition
By Allison Dunne
January 12, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dealt a blow to Constitution Pipeline Thursday, rejecting the company’s petition that asked FERC to find that New York state wrongly denied the project a key permit. The pipeline company plans to fight the decision.
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Constitutoin Pipeline Suffers Another Setback
ALBANY -- The Constitution Pipeline project is once again on hold after its petition was denied Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission.
After being denied permits at the state level last year, the Constitution Pipeline had attempted to have the decision overturned on a federal level.
The company trying to build the controversial natural-gas pipeline that would run through the Southern Tier and into the Catskills had filed a petition to build the 124- mile long pipeline.
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Community Solar Projects Booming in Mid-Hudson
From today's Times Herald Record
“There was a barrier to community solar in the past because you couldn’t get any sort of financial incentive for participating,” said Katherine Nadeau of the Livingston Manor nonprofit Catskill Mountainkeeper, which is helping locals sign up with solar farms. “If you produced more solar energy than you used, there was no way to sell the energy back to the grid.”
To learn more and sign up to go solar, visit renewableny.org
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Draft Regs To Be Prepped To Ban Fracking In Delaware River Basin
Source: WAMC Northeast Report by Allison Dunne
September 15, 2017
Governors of New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania have approved a resolution to issue draft regulations to permanently ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Environmentalists and the natural gas industry criticized the resolution, for different reasons.
Read moreUS: People Power
Source: Al Jazeera
June 21, 2017
Earthrise meets the men and women at the forefront of the grassroots movement for US action against climate change.
Read morePetition against fracking delivered to Gov. Cuomo
By Morgan McKay
July 24, 2017
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The battle over fracking the Delaware River is heating back up again as a group marched to the New York Capitol to hand over a petition signed by thousands of residents.
Read moreNarrowsburg to celebrate Riverfest
July 10, 2017
NARROWSBURG, N.Y. — Celebrate the beauty of the Delaware River and the artistic bounty of the community at Narrowsburg’s 27th annual Riverfest, a free event presented by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance on Sunday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This annual gathering is the flagship event for the hamlet of Narrowsburg as well as the Upper Delaware River region, attracting visitors from near and far with a full day of art and activities surrounded by breathtaking scenery.
Voters to weigh in on land bank measure
By Dan Heath
June 30, 2017
PLATTSBURGH — A constitutional amendment will be on the ballot in November that would create a land bank to improve public safety and telecommunications in the Adirondack Park and Catskills.
Read moreMaurice Hinchey, who served in Congress and state Assembly, has rare brain disease
By Rick Karlin:
June 27, 2017
Former Hudson Valley Congressman and Assemblyman Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat who spearheaded efforts to remove PCBs from the Hudson River, is suffering from a rare terminal neurological disorder that is robbing him of the ability to speak and causing Parkinson’s-like symptoms, his family said on Tuesday.
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