Energy
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2014 - 9:45 am
Above: A map of potential natural gas service areas near the Constitution Pipeline, issued at yesterday's press conference.
In an attempt to build support for their proposed 124-mile natural gas pipeline, Constitution Pipeline officials announced... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 3:20 pm
The plan to heat the village of Fleischmanns with a communal wood boiler will live or die on community buy-in, according to Jim Waters, the director of the Catskill Forest Association (CFA), which is spearheading the proposed project.
Waters gave a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 - 5:38 pm
To the editor:
The 126-mile Constitution pipeline is slated to run behind my farm and under Crane Hill Rd. as well as County Route 23. For those of you along the proposed route, you are being asked to sign an easement agreement. Please consider the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 - 1:03 pm
Above: Jim Waters, the executive director of the Catskill Forest Association. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Forest Association.
Does it make sense to heat the village of Fleischmanns with wood? Hear what the experts think at a public forum this Saturday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 - 7:42 pm
New York City's newly-inaugurated mayor, Bill de Blasio, made it clear he's opposed to hydraulic fracturing in New York State in a speech to fellow mayors in Washington D.C. on Thursday.
De Blasio told the U.S. Conference of Mayors that "the one thing I... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 - 2:37 pm
Above: Inge Grafe-Kieklak, plaintiff in a recent lawsuit challenging a Sidney town moratorium on gas drilling, demonstrates at a pro-drilling rally in Albany on Oct. 15, 2012. Grafe-Kieklak's sign, written in her native German, translates: "Gov. Cuomo,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 - 3:05 pm
Editor's note: We received the letter below from Keitha Capouya, former supervisor of the town of Meredith who was narrowly defeated in last November's election, in response to our story of Dec. 20, 2013, "Meredith bans gas drilling." In it, we reported... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 10:11 pm
Above: Screenshot from Central Hudson's outage map showing widespread power outages in the Ulster County towns of Woodstock and Olive.
On Tuesday evening, with temperatures in the single digits and subzero wind chills, Central Hudson was reporting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 4:30 pm
Don't touch that dial (til 10 p.m.). Closeup photo of washing machine control panel by Flickr user Chris Dillon; published under Creative Commons license.
Officials at the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit company that manages... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 - 2:34 pm
Not-so-heavy industry: A Scottish Highland cow grazes in a Meredith farm field. Photo by Ulla Kjarval; republished with permission.
On Thursday, Dec. 19, the town board of Meredith passed a ban on heavy industry aimed at keeping hydrofracking out of the... Read more
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