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Heated public hearing over Propel project County. Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton, the LegDozens of North Shore resi- islature’s minority leader and a dents crowded into the Knights Glen Cove resident, said she of Columbus hall in Glen Cove could not support the project in on Tuesday to voice opposition its current form, despite being to the proposed Propel NY a Democrat, like Gov. Kathy Energy project, a $3.26 billion Hochul, and an advocate of underground network of trans- green energy. “I have major concerns,” mission lines slated to be routDeRiggi-Whitton ed through local said in her testimoneighborhoods and ny. “This is not the under Hempstead first time I’ve come Harbor. While state out publicly. Everyofficials say the inione loves the idea of tiative would modgreen energy, but the ernize New York’s transparency here is power grid and sorely lacking. It’s boost clean-energy been incredibly diffiaccess, residents cult to get accurate and business owninformation.” ers say the cost to DAWN COSTELLO She also noted their communities Sea Cliff resident the PSC’s prior hanwould be too high. dling of rate hikes The afternoon hearing, hosted by the New by American Water and Liberty York State Public Service Com- Water in Sea Cliff, saying her mission, featured impassioned trust in the commission had testimony from nearly every eroded after residents were speaker, all but a few of whom “left behind” during past rate opposed the project. The trans- restructuring. “I couldn’t even m i s s i o n l i n e w o u l d p a s s get a meeting with them then,” through Glen Head, Glenwood DeRiggi-Whitton said. “Now Landing and Glen Cove to a we’re here again, asking for new substation in Glen Head, answers we can’t get.” She raised environmental and extend under the Long Island Sound to Westchester CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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Courtesy Roni Jenkins
A tropical afternoon in the city Celeste Gullo, above, brought her daughters, Alexa, Sofia and Vanessa, to Island VIbes, at the Glen Cove Ferry Terminal, on July 17. Right, Irma Jeanty and Karen Jones enjoyed chilled drinks on the hot summer day.
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his project would be a direct hit to our small businesses.