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<title>Will Cuomo blueprint solve NY&apos;s energy puzzle?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 19, 2013) Late last year, the Cuomo administration laid out its agenda to address New York&apos;s future energy requirements. All this week, reporters from the Innovation Trail are putting different parts of that complex energy puzzle under the microscope.In this first report, Matt Richmond examines the goals of that plan, known as the Energy Highway Blueprint. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21636/20130319/will-cuomo-blueprint-solve-ny-apos-s-energy-puzzle">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Clarkson prof works to modernize NY state&apos;s energy grid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 27, 2012) Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced New York would invest $250 million to develop smart grid technologies to modernize the state&apos;s energy grid. IBM has just awarded a Clarkson University professor working on smart energy grid systems a $10,000 grant to help him continue his research, and develop coursework for students to train the next generation to use this hot technology. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20959/20121127/clarkson-prof-works-to-modernize-ny-state-apos-s-energy-grid">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Big power line from Quebec to NYC draws fire</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 29, 2012) Opposition appears to be growing to a big new power line that would funnel electricity from hydro dams in Quebec to consumers in New York City. The $2 billion Champlain-Hudson Power Express would bury the cable under Lake Champlain and Hudson River.  The Toronto-based company developing the project hopes to have it online by 2016. But a growing number of critics say Canadian power would edge out producers in upstate New York and cost jobs on this side of the border. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20386/20120829/big-power-line-from-quebec-to-nyc-draws-fire">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>North Country dam authority wins round in court</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 23, 2012) A new ruling by a state Supreme Court could force five counties in the North Country and the Hudson Valley to pay millions of dollars a year to help fund dam operations in the southern Adirondacks. The decision found that it is reasonable for counties to be charged for the benefits they receive in the form of flood protection from dams located on Great Sacandaga and Indian Lake. As Brian Mann reports, county leaders in the North Country say footing the bill for dam operations would add new pressure on taxpayers at a time when budgets are already tight. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19868/20120523/north-country-dam-authority-wins-round-in-court">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>NYS Senator says Lake Champlain power cable will stifle Upstate power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 17, 2012) A State senator from Niagara county is pushing back against a plan to pipe more electricity from producers in Canada to consumers in New York City.Senator George Maziarz says the big electricity  transmission line planned to run under the water of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River would edge out power producers here in New York. Martha Foley has details. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19841/20120517/nys-senator-says-lake-champlain-power-cable-will-stifle-upstate-power">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>St. Lawrence County studies climate action plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 27, 2011) This summer, the St. Lawrence County legislature considered a measure to create a climate action plan. The plan would find ways to save money while reducing the county government’s carbon footprint.  That could include anything from energy audits in county buildings to anti-idling policies in county parking lots. The legislature tabled the matter because it wanted a better cost-benefit analysis of the plan.Clarkson University professor Stephen Bird hopes to provide that analysis.  Bird studies energy and environmental policy.  He’s working with faculty and students at all four universities in Canton and Potsdam. Bird told David Sommerstein that climate change models project significant changes for the North Country in the future. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18178/20110927/st-lawrence-county-studies-climate-action-plan">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Cuomo: NY will review safety at nuclear plant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 17, 2011) Governor Andrew Cuomo says he’s concerned over a report that one of the nuclear reactors at the Indian Point power plant along the Hudson River is on an earthquake fault line, and is checking into the matter. Karen DeWitt reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17328/20110317/cuomo-ny-will-review-safety-at-nuclear-plant">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Nuclear crisis comes as Vermont debates its nuclear future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 15, 2011) The crisis in Japan is unfolding just as Vermont’s legislature is debating the future of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.That 39-year-old plant has faced troubles of its own, including the discovery last year that it was leaking a substance called tritium into the groundwater.Just last week, the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave Vermont Yankee approval to operate for another two decades.  But the disaster in Japan is sparking new opposition among state lawmakers.  Brian Mann spoke with Shay Totten, a reporter and columnist for the weekly magazine “Seven Days&quot; based in Burlington. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17308/20110315/nuclear-crisis-comes-as-vermont-debates-its-nuclear-future">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Sen. Griffo on education cuts, redistricting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 10, 2011) New York’s Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make the Power For Jobs program permanent.  The newly named “Recharge NY” program would double in size by using electricity that had been allocated to small residential energy bill discounts.  It would still offer low-cost power to hundreds of companies across the state in return for job commitments.  The new version of the program would also set aside $8 million to offer power discounts for farmers.  The now goes before the state Assembly.Republican Joe Griffo says the bill is one success in what he calls a “very hectic” session.  Griffo says lawmakers are scrambling to finish budget bills while trying to avoid the “three-men-in-a-room” process that’s given Albany such a bad name.  &quot;To debate these issues in public between both houses and hopefully arrive on a consensus so we can have an on-time budget,&quot; Griffo says.  &quot;I think everybody is trying to work together and do the best we can despite our philosophic differences.&quot;Those differences include how much to cut education spending and how to make redistricting less partisan.  Griffo represents the 47th Senate district, which stretches from Utica in the south, though Lewis County and the eastern half of St. Lawrence County to Massena.  He told David Sommerstein making the popular Power For Jobs program permanent is an important step forward. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17281/20110310/sen-griffo-on-education-cuts-redistricting">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0:  Power for the US, a changed river for the Cree</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 7, 2011) As we’ve been hearing in John Dillon&apos;s report, there is a debate raging over the future of Hydro Quebec’s power projects and their impact on the environment.  Brian Mann has traveled repeatedly to Cree Crounty in northern Quebec, talking with local leaders about the way industrial power projects are changing their villages and the landscape.This morning as part of our series Story 2.0, we’ll revisit his report from 2007. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17262/20110307/story-2-0-power-for-the-us-a-changed-river-for-the-cree">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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