Scoping Comments
Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments
June 18, 2010
The NYS DEC ran Public Comment Sessions on the Draft Scoping Document on Saturday, June 5 and Wednesday, June 9th. In addition, Written Scoping Comments were accepted through June 18, 2010.
On the plus side of the ledger are job creation, a net positive contribution to the Dover and Dutchess County tax base; a brownfield clean-up and wetlands restoration. On the negative side the the public spoke primarily to the environmental impacts: smokestack emissions contributing to already poor air quality in a valley and close to a school; potential drawdown or contamination of our groundwater even though the Applicant proposes to drill below the Aquifer; noise (a “light rain,”
as the Applicant suggests, or the drone of constant traffic as suggested in the Scoping Comments?)
The environmental impacts that affect our residents and neighbors were raised during the Scoping Sessions. Many of the environmental impacts to the Great Swamp itself are addressed in the Scoping Comments from Friends of the Great Swamp. The Scoping Comments submitted by Robert Herzog, former Director of New York City’s Energy Office and Wingdale resident, argue persuasively for the No Action Alternative.
– Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from Robert Herzog, June 18, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from Wayne Fahnstock Tanner, June 6, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from Dover Union Free School District, June 10, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from FROGS, June 16, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from Oblong Land Conservancy, June 17, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from George M. Janes & Associates, June 18, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from Evelyn and Joseph Chiarito, June 18, 2010
–Cricket Valley Energy Scoping Comments from DC Dept. of Planning & Development, June 18, 2010
–NYS Dept. of Public Service, June 18, 2010
*Note: printed post date is for chronological clarity. Actual post date is August and December, 2010.
