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LIPA Urged To Reroute Proposed Cable Around Long Pond Greenbelt

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East End environmentalists urged the Long Island Power Authority to abandon plans to run a power cable under its right-of-way through the Long Pond Greenbelt. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

East End environmentalists urged the Long Island Power Authority to abandon plans to run a power cable under its right-of-way through the Long Pond Greenbelt. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

authorStephen J. Kotz on Oct 3, 2022
Many of the same people who turned out in force last summer to tell PSEG Long Island not to run an underground transmission cable through the heart of the Long... more

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