Continue reading here-- Senators try to prevent Quebec transmission line
By BRIAN AMARAL
TIMES STAFF WRITER
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012
Jobs at power production facilities in the north country could disappear if the state goes forward with a plan to pipe electricity from Quebec to New York City, according to several state senators who have signed on to a bill to block the proposal.
The senators — led by state Sen. George Maziarz, a Western New York Republican, and joined by state Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton — say upstate jobs are at stake if a $2 billion transmission line proposal is approved because it would squeeze out energy producers in the state, like nuclear power plants, facilities that burn wood to create electricity and wind turbine farms.
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