2:5 Rally for a Fossil Free Tompkins, June 27, 2015, Community School of Music & Arts, Ithaca, NY. Video by Cris McConkey
• Barbara Lifton, NYS Assembly District 125
• Irene Weiser, Member, Caroline Town Council.
Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton has taken a position against the repowering of the Cayuga Power Plant with gas and coal, and against bailouts of coal plants around New York State. She has authored a letter to Governor Cuomo, signed by seventy of her colleagues in the NYS Assembly saying that we have to stop bailing out power plants, and instead move toward renewables and provide support for the communities that lose the power plants.
Irene Weiser gives an account of a very busy week. On Wednesday, the announcement of Barbara's letter in our local papers. On Thursday, the news that the Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare. But also on Thursday, the Governor released his revised energy plan . Does Cuomo care? Though the plan has climate protection goals that are better than they were, 50% renewables by 2030 just isn't going to get us there. But the big thing that brings us all here, in case you haven't noticed, she said, ,is that we're still getting fracked... right here in Tompkins County. She comments on a number of infrastructure projects that affect Tompkins County: The 10" pipeline that NYSEG wants to install on West Dryden Road, where the real interest may be in obtaining the easements for future development; the Dominion 'New Market' project that will see an expansion of the compressor station in Ellis Hollow and increased pressure and flow through 50 year old pipes; and the $125 million boondoggle that is the plan to repower the Cayuga power plant.
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