On August 10, CLP’s Evelyn Wright made a presentation to a packed pavilion at Robert Post Memorial Park in the Town of Ulster. Alongside Ulster County Executive Mike Hein and Scenic Hudson’s Hayley Carlock, she spoke to an audience of 150 about the dangers to the region posed by the proposed Glidepath Lincoln Park Grid Support Center gas power plant.

On Wednesday, June 27, businesses, organizations, and municipalities are invited to the launch and vendor show that will kick off the Ulster County Green Business Challenge.

Why would a Chicago-based company that has never built a fossil-fueled generating plant decide to build one in the Town of Ulster? It’s not entirely clear, but name of the so-called “Lincoln Park Grid Support Center” may give us a clue. The company’s site of the company (GlidePath) explains that its purpose is to offer the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) paid “regulation services and short-term energy during periods of peak demand.”

Citizen for Local Power has submitted scoping comments for the environmental impact review of the proposed Lincoln Park gas-diesel-battery power plant.

The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has proposed the first amendments to State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) regulations in over two decades. The amendments were driven in part by the desire to better align the environmental review process with state energy targets, including streamlining the process for installing solar arrays on priority sites, such as industrial sites and parking lots.

The Town of Rosendale, at its February 1 meeting, adopted a resolution requesting that its State Legislative Representatives sponsor/co-sponsor a bill introduced by Assemblyman Frank Skartados (A-2446) to amend Section 87 of NYS Transportation Corporations Law to extend pipeline siting authority to Towns. Currently, the law grants this authority to Villages and Cities but not to Towns.  CLP strongly encourages other municipalities to adopt similar resolutions, which would make this law more consistent with Municipal Home Rule. The bill can be found here and the Rosendale resolution can be found here.