Terrell: “Collateral damage”
GOSHEN – The head of the anti-CPV power plant group Protect Orange
County and its attorney, activist Michael Sussman, Thursday called on
the state attorney general and Orange County executive to immediately
take action to investigate and stop the electric generating plant in Wawayanda
from being placed online.
It has already been tested using diesel fuel, spewing clouds of gray vapor
of the area for miles.
Joan Terrell, who lives 9 ½ miles away from the facility in Warwick,
said when the testing was underway, the clouds of particles were evident
in her neighborhood. She questioned what that will do in the long run
to the children in the area calling her neighborhood “collateral
damage.”
Sussman called on County Executive Steven Neuhaus to immediately file
court papers seeking to enjoin the plant from opening. And given the federal
court conviction of one-time aide to Governor Cuomo, Joseph Percoco, on
bribery charges, the Goshen attorney called on the state’s top prosecutor
to take action as well.
“So Eric Schneiderman, a good friend of mind, get off your duff,
get your investigators down to Orange County, subpoena everyone on that
board and everyone from CPV and find out what happened,” Sussman
said.
Opponents of the plant say Wawayanda town officials rushed it through
the approval process in a corrupt process.
Pramilla Malick, the founder of Protect Orange County, who sat in the
courtroom every day of Percoco’s trial, said the plant was “built
on a house of cards, on a house of lies.”
She renewed her call for Governor Cuomo and the departments of environmental
conservation and health to pull the plug on the project.
Opponents are opposed to the siting of the plant, sandwiched between Interstate
84 and Route 6, its proximity to residential neighborhoods and schools,
and health issues.
