Maziarz announces legislation to short circuit foreign transmission line

by jmaloni

Tue, May 15th 2012 03:15 pm

Press release

At a press conference Tuesday morning, State Sen. George Maziarz, R-C-Newfane, joined fellow state senators, union members, power generators and business groups in order to draw attention to what they deem negative impacts of a proposed underwater transmission line from Canada, and to announce legislation prohibiting the use of eminent domain by an electric corporation (or affiliate) that seeks to build a transmission line that originates outside of the U.S. to an ending point within the U.S.

The proposed Champlain Hudson Power Express Transmission Line (CHPE) is a 1,000-mw transmission line that would originate in Canada and end in New York City. CHPE does not allow any other existing New York generators or transmission companies to tie in to the line, nor does it address the issues being faced by certain struggling power plants throughout New York.


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Maziarz “ A bill aimed at protecting New York's economy , and environment from efforts to flood our markets with foreign energy from Canada.”