Scott,

As you know, I have been attending as a stakeholder, meetings with NYPA for Robert Moses Power Project relicensing for over two years. It is an understatement to say that NYPA has played hardball from the start. They have not begun to address the impact of the Power Project on Niagara County or Niagara University. They have played the game of divide and conquer expertly, or so they think. Their treachery and disregard for our interests is something which we will use against them for the next fifty years. Probably they will get their license from Bush's FERC regardless, but the enmity they have incurred, the bitterness and resentment, is something that I guarantee, will haunt them for as long as I'm on this side of the lawn.

Am I angry? Damn right I am. I hate these bastards with the heat of a nova.

Just to the South of the dotted line is Hooker Hyde Park Landfill Superfund Site and Titanium Alloys Manufacturing (TAM-Ferro)--an Atomic Weapons Employer and location of radioactive materials recycling--leaving behind in the environment "hotter" fission and transuranic products, even such materials as Plutonium. Niagara University Board of Trustees should be most concerned about this rather than land grabbing ever closer to the dangers. Shame. These actions are irresponsible.  My two cents.

Reader Comments-from Niagara Gazette

Lou Ricciuti (8/23/2005)
Whatever the concession that NU is looking for with the relicensing of NYPA, I certainly hope it is not to acquire more land to the Southwest of the school ever closer to the (TAM-Ferro) Energy Employees Occupational Illness Program Act 2000 legacy Manhattan A-bomb Project property. NU is lobbying for parcel(s) of property expanding into lands that include those adjacent to the Occidental-Hooker Hyde Park Landfill Superfund site and the old Bloody Run cleanup. Get on the band wagon NU but not like this.
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NU officials air problems with NYPA
By Aaron Besecker
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

LEWISTON — Niagara University officials dished out their first public criticism of the New York Power Authority on Tuesday with regards to the relicensing process of the Niagara Power Project.

NYPA officials filed their application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week. The submission lacked any settlement terms between the university and NYPA — the current operator of hydroelectric generating facilities currently harnessing the mighty Niagara.

The Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, president of NU’s Board of Trustees, said at a midday media luncheon university officials are “extremely disappointed.”...

University Trustee Marsha Joy Sullivan said it’s obvious by NYPA’s action without NU on board, they think the school is irrelevant in the process.

“Apparently they feel they do not need our consensus,” Sullivan said.

NU has always acted in good faith, and will continue to hold talks with NYPA. Sullivan did not rule out the possibility of filing a formal complaint with federal officials.

“We’re running out of patience,” she said.

Sullivan said NU trustees had been told by NYPA officials the state authority wanted to participate in a partnership with the school, rather than just buying favor by writing checks.

NYPA plans to continue to talk with school officials with the intention of an agreed-upon settlement, said Brian Vattimo, NYPA director of communications.

Contact Aaron Besecker at (716) 282-2311, Ext. 2263

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Lew-Port has Pu, the Air Base has Pu ands now there is a need to investigate the Pu at NU!

-- Edited by NuclearLou at 03:29, 2005-08-25