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Gathering to oppose turbines, battery centers By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
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County Executive Bruce Blakeman and other elected officials spoke in Long Beach Wednesday about wind turbines and battery energy storage systems, continuing the fight against them.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and other elected officials gathered on the Long Beach bayfront on Wednesday to express their concerns about, and opposition to, plans to erect wind turbines off the coast, and the lithium-ion battery facilities that would store the energy they produce. “These wind turbines are killing birds and killing whales and create environmental hazards,” Blakeman said at a news conference at the city fire station on West Park Avenue. “There’s oil and diesel fuel with each and every one, and that fuel could escape. There could be a collision, there could be a leak of some kind, and pollute all of our beaches. And then, on top of that, these battery storages, are the size of buildings.” Blakeman claimed that if there were a fire at a storContinuEd on pagE 10
A.B. woman is honored for making a selfless choice By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Maggie Goodman was scrolling through Facebook one day last October when saw a post from a woman looking for a kidney donor for her son. It turned out that the woman’s son was Goodman’s colleague, Thomas Coveney. Goodman, 34, of Atlantic Beach, is a sixth-grade special-
education teacher at I.S. 73 in Maspeth, Queens. T hough Coveney, 47, teaches there, too, they weren’t well acquainted. But Goodman wanted to help anyway, got tested, and found out she was a biological match with Coveney. Four months later, on Feb. 10, the transplant was performed in North Shore University Hospital’s Petrocelli Surgical Pavilion. On April 10, in a
ceremony at Long Beach VFW Post 1384, Goodman was honored with a plaque by Dems by the Sea, a Long Beach-based Democratic community group, for her selfless act when Coveney seemed out of options. “My son has never had a healthy day in his life,” Judy Cataldo, his mother, told Goodman and the crowd at the gathering. “You sometimes don’t realize that unless you have a
chronic disease or physical disease, but health is a blessing, and we take it for granted. Thank you for giving me my son.” Cataldo and Coveney first looked to their own family to try to find a compatible donor, but discovered that seven of Coveney’s first cousins had proteins in their kidneys that made them ineligible. That made it even more difficult to
find a donor, because hospitals require potential donors answer questionnaires, put them through several tests and make sure they know exactly what they might be going through. Even though Goodman knew she wanted to do it, the final decision wasn’t an easy one. She consulted, among others, her ob-gyn, to address concerns ContinuEd on pagE 9