[CPEO-BIF] National Grid power plant, Port Jefferson, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

IPA Task Force Touts Campaign to Repower Port Jeff Plant
Repowering the Port Jefferson power plant is main thrust of LIPA Task  
Force strategy.

By Lon Cohen |
Port Jefferson Patch (NY)
February 28, 2011
A campaign to repower the power plant in Port Jefferson was presented  
by the village’s LIPA Task Force at a public meeting on Feb. 17 at  
Port Jefferson High School as one strategy to push back against the  
tax grievance filed with the Town of Brookhaven and the Village of  
Port Jefferson by National Grid and Long Island Power Authority.

The utilities claim that they are overpaying taxes for the power plant.

...

One card the village has in its deck is that the plant poses an  
environmental problem if it’s decommissioned and the village could  
force National Grid to remediate the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://portjefferson.patch.com/articles/lipa-task-force-touts- 
campaign-to-repower-port-jeff-plant

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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