By County Executive Ed Day Last week we activated Rockland County’s Emergency Operations Center in Pomona, thankfully not for an actual emergency but for an Indian Point disaster drill. Rockland was one of four counties that practiced emergency responses in case an incident ever happened at the Indian Point nuclear power plant located just across […]
To the Editor, Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York’s electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S. The plants annually avoid an astonishing 16 million tons of carbon emissions that would be released into the air we breathe […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Tarrytown – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding evidentiary hearings on the safety of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. The hearings, which are chaired by an adjudicatory panel, will examine evidence and make recommendations in anticipation of a decision on the renewal of Indian Point’s license. Among the groups which presented […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL New York’s 17th Congressional District will be getting a new leader this election season as Congressman Eliot Engel has been drawn out of the district. In fact, because of redistricting the new 17th now contains all of Rockland County, along with parts of Westchester County. Longtime Democratic Congresswoman Nita Lowey hopes to […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – The Rockland County Legislature met at 7 p.m. on October 3 during which a number of speakers offered opinions and suggestions regarding United Water’s proposed desalination plant project. The speakers’ concerns included the quality of desalinated water, the environmental impact of the plant’s operations, expenses related to the plant, […]
On Tuesday, October 2, a federally evaluated exercise will be conducted at the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC). The exercise will be evaluated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The emergency response plans of New York State, the counties of Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester, and the plants’ […]