Advertisement. Advertise with us

CONSTITUTION

SUES NY’S DEC

Denying 125-Mile Pipeline

Called ‘Arbitrary, Capricious’

natural gasALBANY – Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC today challenged the state DEC’s decision blocking the 125-mile natural-gas transmission line in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,  Second District, the company announced a few minutes ago.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation last month denied the company’s request for a Section 401 Water Quality Certification under the Clean Water Act.

The challenge says that denial was “arbitrary and capricious and constitutes an impermissible challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity which was issued to the company in December 2014.

Also today, the company filed an action with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York seeking a declaration that the State of New York’s authority to exercise permitting jurisdiction over certain other environmental matters is preempted by federal law, according to a press release.

CLICK HERE FOR COMPANY’S FULL STATEMENT

 

Posted

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Related Articles

Killer Ricky Knapp Dies In Prison

Killer Knapp Dies In Prison; Guilty In SUNY Coed’s Death ONEONTA – Ricky Knapp, the man convicted of the 1977 death of SUNY Oneonta student, has died in Mohawk Correctional Facility, according to prison records. Knapp, 66, died March 8, having served 40 years of a 25-to-life sentence for a 1978 manslaughter conviction in the death of 18-year-old Linda Velzy, a SUNY student from Long Island. According to reports, Velzy was last seen Dec. 9 1977, hitchhiking in downtown Oneonta.…

Hartwick College Drops Division I Sports Programs

Hartwick College Drops Both Division I Sports  Men’s Soccer to DIII, Women’s Water Polo Cut By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In a letter addressed to all students, Hartwick College announced this afternoon that it would be withdrawing from NCAA Division I athletics, including from soccer, where it won a national championship in the 1970s. According to the letter, signed by Hartwick College’s President Margaret Drugovich, Board of Trustees Chair Francis Landrey, and Student Affair Committee Chair David Long, Hartwick’s Board of Trustees voted on whether or not to continue with the school’s two Division I programs,…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.