GOSHEN, NY—Environmental group Riverkeeper and Orange County-based politicians are requesting the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to either suspend or revoke permits for a completed nearly $1-billion power plant project that has become embroiled in a corruption scandal.
Ossining, NY-based Riverkeeper sent a letter on April 6 to New York State DEC commissioner Basil Seggos and other DEC officials calling for an investigation into the state permits received by Competitive Power Ventures for its $900-million 680-megawatt natural gas-fired CPV Valley Energy Center plant in Wawayanda. Riverkeeper states that it believes that Competitive Power Ventures should be deemed “an unsuitable entity to hold permits in New York” and that the DEC should therefore either revoke or suspend its state permits. Other signatories to the letter were: Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus, State Assembly members Aileen Gunther and James Skoufis.
Richard Webster, legal program director for Riverkeeper, was joined at a press conference today held at the Orange County Government Center in Goshen by Neuhaus, Skoufis and Gunther to announce the formal request to the DEC. Also participating in the press conference was Orange County Legislator James O'Donnell.
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John Jordan
John Jordan is a veteran journalist with 36 years of print and digital media experience.
