{"id":3207,"date":"2010-11-12T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T11:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2010-11-12T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:11:05","slug":"morning-read-new-opposition-to-champlain-power-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/12\/morning-read-new-opposition-to-champlain-power-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: New opposition to Champlain power cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Must be something in the air.\u00a0 First a North Country town bans wind farms, now there&#8217;s fresh opposition to the proposed underwater power cable that would stretch from Quebec&#8217;s big hydro installations to New York City &#8212; using an underwater route in Lake Champlain and the Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1110252585\/Opposition-to-underwater-cable-project-presented\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Winslow, a staff scientist with the Lake Champlain Committee, said  the proposal could impact some of the least-understood parts of the  lake. He questioned whether there is enough need for this supply of  power in the metro New York area.<\/p>\n<p>Winslow also asked if the  underwater route is the least environmentally damaging alternative. He  said the process is likely to result in an incredible disturbance of  sediment and damage to underwater vegetation, especially in the southern  portion of the lake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before this week&#8217;s hearing the project had drawn little opposition or public scrutiny (outside of the government agencies assigned to review it).<\/p>\n<p>The biggest concern heretofore had been the cable&#8217;s lack of real economic benefit to the North Country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1110252585\/Opposition-to-underwater-cable-project-presented\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must be something in the air.\u00a0 First a North Country town bans wind farms, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4818,10,883,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}