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Poughkeepsie Journal: Protect Olana from industrial blight like SLC
POUGHKEEPSIE -- In an editorial both stern and celebratory, The Poughkeepsie Journal has bolstered its staunch opposition earlier this summer to the massive, coal-fired St. Lawrence Cement plant.
The Journal delivered its message in the context of a $250,000 Federal "Save America's Treasures" grant to Olana State Historic site, which will help speed up the restoration of chimneys on Frederick Edwin Church's "architectural masterpiece in Columbia County."
Turning to a very different type of chimney, the paper cautioned that the mistake made in 2001, when State officials permitted "a gigantic power plant nearby in Athens, Greene County" in the Olana viewshed, should not be repeated: "Despite vehement community opposition, [Athens Gen] was permitted with unseemly haste under New York's too-lax Article X."
Today, it noted, the "Department of Environmental Conservation is still reviewing plans by St. Lawrence Cement to build a massive new plant near Greenport, a few miles north of the Dutchess County line. The facility would be way out of scale with the rural area, and it would emit too many pollutants. Its 366-foot preheater tower and a 406-foot stack would be the tallest structure between New York City and Albany -- and only three miles from Olana."
To read the entire editorial, click HERE.
posted 12/11/2003
Maine: SLC proposal 'not neighborly at all'; Connecticut: "stop this cement plant"
BANGOR, Me. / HARTFORD, Ct. -- On December 9th and 11th, the Bangor Daily News and the Hartford Courant became just the latest in a long string of newspapers to come out against the proposed St. Lawrence Cement plant.
To read the entire Maine editorial, click HERE; to read the Courant editorial, click HERE.
The News lamented that after "all these years of being friendly to New Yorkers who come here for vacation and in exchange Maine is sent a lot of gaseous air laden with pollution. Not neighborly; not at all."
The Courant called for Connecticut Governor Rowland "to urge his Republican colleague, New York Gov. George Pataki, to reject the current proposal."
Previous editorials opposing the SLC proposal have been published in The Independent (Hillsdale, NY), The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), The New Haven Register (CT), The Poughkeepsie Journal (NY), The New York Times (twice), and The Boston Globe, among others.
Letters to the editor of the Bangor Daily News can be sent via email by clicking HERE; to the Courant by clicking HERE.
posted 12/09/2003
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