Grand Island's slice of the pie?

[Ragin]

5 more want piece of relicensing pie
By JERRY ZREMSKI
NEWS NATIONAL REPORTER
4/15/2006

WASHINGTON - Amherst, Grand Island, the Town of Tonawanda and two other local communities are telling federal regulators that, just like Buffalo and Erie County, they deserve more of the bounty produced by the Niagara Power Project.
They, along with the cities of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, this week filed a document with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, seeking to intervene in the power project's relicensing.

The owner of the vast hydropower project, the New York Power Authority, cut resettlement deals with seven Niagara County governments and with Buffalo and Erie County, but "skipped over" the communities in between, said Grand Island Supervisor Peter McMahon.

"If they settled with Buffalo and Erie County and a group up in Niagara County, how did we get left out?" McMahon said.

The northern tip of Grand Island is closer to the Power Project than Wheatfield, one of the Niagara County communities in the coalition that won a $1 billion settlement, McMahon pointed out.

In addition, waterfront properties in Grand Island encounter fluctuations in the Niagara River of up to a foot because of the power project, affecting boating and wildlife.

McMahon said the water-level impact in Buffalo - which, with Erie County, won a $279 million settlement - is minimal in comparison.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...15/1070802.asp

[Northshore]

Looks like just another "ME TOO"

[WNYresident]

I'd rather just pay cheaper electricity rates. Put on at least on average to what other areas in the united states pay for thier electric and then see what is left to extort out of us.

[300miles]

Albany and the Shadow Govt Authority created this mess of a process to begin with. Our local communities should all grab as much as they possibly can from it.

Kudos to Grand Island.