More on Galloo project

Treading water in a cold lake
Watertown Times Editorial

SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012

Two weeks ago, Upstate New York Power Corp. told the state Public Service Commission it could not justify the additional cost of running transmission lines under Lake Ontario to Scriba, and suggested the lines should, instead, hit landfall in Hounsfield and run to the Coffeen Street substation of National Grid. The president of Upstate New York Power also suggested in his letter to the PSC that his company will try to sell its power to the Army to power Fort Drum.

Not to say I told you so, but in October 2010 I wrote that Upstate would not, in fact, ever seriously consider a lake-bottom transmission line and that it would continue its pursuit of a land line, either through Henderson and Ellisburg and Richland to a substation in the town of Mexico or to the Coffeen Street substation.


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