Watertown Daily Times | Galloo Island Wind Farm in limbo as state senator calls for end to Great Lakes Offshore Wind
NYPA APPLICATION: Ritchie says agency in review process after report Long Island locale is likely winner
By NANCY MADSEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Developers of Galloo Island Wind Farm have waited months for word on their application for a power purchase agreement, and now a state senator has said the entire program for offshore wind power in the Great Lakes should be scrapped.
State Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, told the Buffalo News on Thursday that the New York Power Authority is backing away from the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie project in favor of a wind farm off Long Island with the Long Island Power Authority and Consolidated Edison.
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I read this "news" before. I didn't see where it had much more to do with it than politics.I can tell you, having met the "engineers" in the Schenectady power station that having an energy plant closer to NYC might prevent a VERIZON or AT&T shutdown due to power failure.
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