On February 7, 2010, there was an explosion at a nearly completed power plant in Middletown, Connecticut. The blast killed six people and injured fifty more. February 7 was Super Bowl Sunday, and it's alleged that all those people were working on Sunday because the lead contractor was hoping to collect a $14 million bonus for early completion. That contractor was none other than O&G, the same Connecticut-based company that's running gravel trucks through our city and seeking to create a haul road directly from the quarry to the dock to give them the freedom to run more and larger trucks--through the wetlands in Greenport, across the two highways that enter Hudson, through South Bay, across the railroad tracks, and to the river. Earlier this month, Fortune published an exposé of the accident and the circumstances that led up to it. Thanks to Victor Mendolia for bringing this to everyone's attention.
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