We disagree, and continue to press for a Saturday Session to give voice to the people of Dover and the Harlem Valley, so that they may understand better and comment on the negative public health issues surrounding CVE, most notably with regard to air quality.

We are indebted to Tonia Shoumatoff’s continuing coverage of Cricket Valley Energy (CVE) for The Millbrook Independent, and appreciate that from a wider perspective, a new gas-fired plant such as CVE is preferable to a new coal-fired plant. A coal-fired plant would never be built in the Harlem Valley, nor, in our opinion, is it likely that these low cost providers in other regions in NYS will be taken off-line anytime soon.

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Millbrook Independent
By Antonia Shoumatoff

“Coal generates 54% of our electricity, and is the single biggest air polluter in the U.S.”–Union of Concerned Scientists, 2010″

At a Citizens Advisory Workshop on April 7, the energy consultant for Cricket Valley Energy estimated that carbon emissions in this region would be reduced by 716,818 tons by 2018 because Cricket Valley’s gas-fired plant will replace many obsolete coal-fired plants. These were just one of several impressive figures Fred Sellars of Arkadis Arcadis mentioned in the review of the air quality issues that Cricket Valley is dealing with in its permit process now before the NY State DEC.

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is soliciting comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Cricket Valley Energy’s proposed state-of-the-art, combined-cycle power plant planned for an inactive industrial site off Route 22 in Dover, New York.

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Census data for the Town of Dover is available on the Dutchess County website, http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/CountyGov/Departments/Planning/PLcensus.htm

From Kathy Schibanoff, Board of Education President and Dover Knolls Liason: “Attached is the pdf for Dover, and a sheet of census analysis done by Pattern for Progress, a regional think tank. This mirrors what is happening in the schools in the Hudson Valley.”

Dover Planning Board Co-Chair Valerie LaRobardier gets credit for drawing our attention to http://blogs.census.gov/ from whence the following two notes come:

- Read “Demographic Analysis” And The Census

- Read The Release of The 2010 Demographic Analysis Population Estimates

-See article in the Pawling Press, May 20, 2011

-See article in the Pawling Press, May 20, 2011

DOVER — The middle school gymnasium at the Dover Middle/High School had plenty of environmental flair on Friday, April 15, as part of the Dover Conservation Advisory Council’s (CAC) third annual Earth Day event at the school.

-see full article in The Millerton News, April 28, 2011

-see full article in Pawling Press, April 22, 2011

By Antonia Shoumatoff

Alternatives to Indian Point’s nuclear power plant relicensing in 2012 are being hotly discussed in New York State government and New York City media as Japan struggles to avert a severe meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi plant after a tsunami two weeks ago. The NYS Attorney General addressed a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last week that addressed concerns about Indian Point being located on two earthquake fault lines. Read the rest of this entry »

- View Oak Hill Map – Lands of Vincent I
- View Oak Hill Map – Lands of Vincent II

Cricket Valley Energy invites you to attend the next series of Advisory Working Groups (AWG) related to our proposal to develop a state-of-the-art, combined-cycle power plant located at an inactive industrial site off Route 22 in Dover.

Engineers and environmental specialists will cover items identified by attendees at the next set of meetings beginning in March. Meetings will focus on: Traffic & Safety; Water, Wetlands & Wildlife; and Air Quality. You are invited to join one, two or all three groups — no experience or special expertise is required.

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-  January 26, 2011 letter to Town Planning Board

Millbrook Independent
by Antonia Shoumatoff

Protecting water quality, particularly in the watershed of the four streams and rivers of the Harlem Valley, is the special domain of non-profits and governmental agencies. The ever-present concern is that increased development in the area may cause water quality degradation. People who live here expect to open the tap and have clean water. Experience elsewhere has shown that once water is polluted, it is very difficult and expensive to clean it up. The story in The Millbrook Independent about the horrors of the High Meadows Trailer Park is just one example of how contaminated water disrupts everyday living.

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From the census.gov blog

There are two principal ways that we try to learn about the size of the US population. One, the decennial census, is the focus of this blog. The other method, called “demographic analysis,” uses the “vital registration” system of the US — birth registrations, death registrations – as well as estimates of immigration and emigration.

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From the census.gov blog

As I mentioned in an earlier post, “Demographic Analysis” And The Census, one method of measuring the size of the US population relies on historical birth registration, death registration, as well as estimates of in-migration to and out-migration from the United States. Census Bureau demographers have completed the assembly of national estimates for the April 1, 2010 population of the United States, and we will release them on December 6, 2010. Since demographic analysis produces only national estimates, it cannot be used for the reapportionment and redistricting purposes required of the 2010 Census. It is, however, a useful comparison to the Census.

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- Read January 10, 2011 DEC letter to Town of Dover Planning Board

- Read Dover Planning Board minutes January 3, 2011

- Read NYS Dept of Transportation SEQRA Letter

Read Dover Zoning Board Special Meeting Minutes, December 8, 2010

- Read Dover Planning Board minutes December 6, 2010

- Read Oak Hill Plat Plan Application