WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Amphenol Advocates Need
To Make Their Voices Heard
Editor's Note: This is our opinion, expressed in the editorial that appeared in the Sept. 10-11 editions of The Freeman's Journal & Hometown Oneonta. What do you think? Send your opinion to info@allotsego.com, to appear in this week's editions of the newspaper.
Clearly, Stop the Pipeline has dominated the debate about the Constitution Pipeline since January 2013, when “Alternate M,” the route through Otsego County, was rejected.
There was parity before that: The Otsego County Board of Representatives’ chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and her then-ally, county Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, had marshaled colleagues behind the effort to win the pipeline and garner an estimated $13 million in property taxes for towns and school districts along the route.
Since, the route through Delaware County has been mired in debate, some of it smacking of hysteria, from Stop the Pipeline and its allies. Whether as a result or not, the state Public Service Commission is taking its time coming to a decision. Pipeline construction was supposed to begin in the spring, and is still awaiting the go-ahead.
