A New Wave

Well, this is it. NYRU now has its own blog! I am not sure how this will work but I'm going to try.
Having come back from the Great Lakes Collaboration meeting in Chicago this weekend, a lot of work has been generated. The main focus of this group will be to get Congress to fund the Great Lakes Basin Plans that we are all now working on. I have been on the phone with agencies all week (EPA, DEC and USF&WS). EPA is pushing for specifics and DEC wants things as general as possible. Much of the future funding will depend on the outcome of these discussions.
Thursday will be the public meeting (phone conference) on School St., conducted by FERC. This is an annual event to go over progress on the remaining "class of '93 " projects. School St. is one of many projects that will be dealt with.
We will be preparing a filing on West Canada Creek shortly, (should have been done already) on a water withdrawal and its association with the three hydro projects. We may try to open the licenses up if there is support from the agencies.
Sent a letter to EPA asking about our current funding (request of program administrator) threatining to call our congressman if they don't get moving. Will wait for a response.