Colgate to host first hearing on power line

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Colgate to host first hearing on power line

Story Created: Sep 30, 2008 at 7:48 AM EST

Story Updated: Sep 30, 2008 at 7:48 AM EST

HAMILTON, N.Y. (AP) - Madison County residents will get the
first chance to sound off about New York Regional Interconnect's
proposed $2.1 billion high-voltage power line project next month.

The state Public Service Commission on Monday released a schedule for a series of 14 public meetings in each of the seven counties along the line's proposed 190-mile route.

The state agency originally scheduled just two hearings, in Utica and Oneonta, but added a dozen other sessions after an outcry from grass-roots opposition groups along the proposed corridor.

NYRI wants to run a transmission line from near Utica to Orange County. Supporters say the line is needed to improve the state's aging power grid and reduce the threat of blackouts like the one that struck the Northeast in 2003.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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