“In a 4-to-1 vote, the Guilderland Town Board on Aug. 4 passed a resolution that will let the Champlain Hudson Power Express Inc. run underground lines through the town to bring electric power from Canada to the New York City area.
“The people that oppose this are not just Canadians,” said Councilwoman Laurel Bohl before she cast the sole dissenting vote.
She named the Sierra Club, Hudson Riverkeeper, New York electric companies, New York clean-energy companies, and 22 labor unions as opposing the project.
“Hydroelectricity from large dams is not really renewable energy,” said Bohl. She cited a Harvard study that found “drastic negative effects on fish, forests, and the cultural identity of the indigenous community.”
Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber, in the course of a lengthy discussion before the vote, said, “I’m a member of the Algonquin tribe but I don’t get any revenues … I get a $1.75 check every so often.””
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Altamonth Enterprise 10 August 2020.