September 20, 2016

PSC Authorizes Restart of Shuttered Seneca Lake Power Plant with Inadequate Environmental Review

The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) issued certificates of convenience and necessity authorizing the repowering of Greenidge Generating Station on Seneca Lake on September 16, one week after the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued the Title IV and Title V air permits for the plant. The PSC relied upon the DEC's negative declaration for its evaluation of the impacts of restarting the power plant and did not wait for DEC to issue the plant's State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) and water withdrawal permits.

Click here for a copy of the PSC's order.

An index to the papers filed in the PSC proceeding by my client the Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes and the PSC decisions is posted on my law office website.

Posted by Rachel Treichler 09/16/16, updated 01/02/23.

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