Stop NYRI rally planned for May 19

DOE is not going to withdraw its draft NIETC designations simply because a busload of people show up at a public hearing to protest. Similar protests have been ongoing for 18 months, but they didn't prevent DOE from issuing the designations. What MIGHT help is a strategy aimed at persuading DOE to modify its designations to satisfy New York City's claimed needs without also facilitating the NYRI project. This would mean limiting any NIETC in NY State to a corridor running from New Jersey northward to metro NYC or Long Island. Such a NJ-NY corridor is what NYC requested in its March 6, 2006 comments to DOE on early NIETC designation. If an NIETC in NY were limited in this way, it would give NYC what it says it needs, while avoiding a corridor upstate, where NYRI hopes to build its project. That way, NYRI would not have access to a federal forum if the state PSC denies its application. This sort of compromise might work because it is reasoned and reasonable. A continued uncompromising strategy that opposes all NIETCs anywhere and everywhere is likely to continue to fail.

Everyone should attend this and sign whatever is available to keep our children safe from this. Time spent now will pay off far more than trying to get rid of the powerline after the cancer rate goes up.