tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post3745960944211454207..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Meetings of Interest Happening This WeekCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-45457765260102115392014-01-21T13:32:42.203-05:002014-01-21T13:32:42.203-05:00About those new siting standards for the transmiss...About those new siting standards for the transmission lines, I'd present the opportunities and the hazards a bit differently.<br /><br />Along with discerning new ways to support our rural neighbors and to protect farmland, Hudson residents should be looking for any changes in the proposal, or even new proposals, that put those ugly transmission lines beneath the river.<br /><br />Also keep in mind that the last time we saw changes to the overall plan was in mid-November. After the change there were no proposed lines crossing into the City of Hudson. But before that change, the lines were to cross the city at the 7th Street Park, then follow the rail spur down to the river and to points south.<br /><br />In those circumstances, and considering the Common Council's ambition to site the new police station immediately east of the proposed excavations, one wonders whether the council would have risen to the occasion of making a Public Comment to the NYS Public Service Commission? <br /><br />With the available comment time then remaining (only a little over two months ago), the council wouldn't have had the time to comment one way or the other seeing as though nobody in Hudson even knew what had been proposed until after that plan was superseded! <br /><br />That was a very close call. By itself it makes an exemplary argument in favor of the Common Council establishing for the city a Conservation Advisory Council (CAC).<br />unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.com