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Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, a Democrat who represents many Hudson River communities, delivered a letter signed by several state lawmakers calling for additional dredging in the river.
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That was a sharp contrast from a year ago, when the administration was trying to woo General Electric into locating its headquarters in New York and did not call for any additional action as the dredging of the river wound down.
While GE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deserve credit for the partial cleanup of some PCB hotspots completed last fall, the unholy alliance of polluter and regulator in fending off calls for additional dredging is the major obstacle to a healthy river and economic revitalization of upriver community waterfronts.
EPA declared the project a success and said no additional dredging is warranted,» company spokesman Mark Behan said in a prepared statement.
More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.
According to Inside Climate News, the Kalamazoo River spill, which occurred in July 2010, already has cost Enbridge more than $ 820 million in cleanup costs, but that figure could top $ 1 billion by the time additional EPA - mandated dredging is carried out.
News Articles Gayathri Vaidyanathan E&E reporter March 15, 2013 More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.
Furthermore, DEC Commissioner Seggos made clear in his letter that the need for additional monitoring should not be an excuse for the EPA to delay a formal finding that the cleanup has failed to meet its objectives and that additional dredging is needed.