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THE ANNUAL CANOE AND KAYAK CONTESTS have grown each year to draw, large crowds to the event held at Waterfront Park on August 7. Youngsters and adults competed In various meets to raise money to benefit the many PAL programs In Freeport. Above are members of the Police Activity League and the Freeport Chamber of Commerce, including Ed Friedman, Jack Lundergan, Mayor Bill Glacken, Steve Rhoads, PAL Director iVlike Pomerico, and Sue Lyons, along with youngsters who competed in the first several races of the day.
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by Laura Schofer
According to Kevin Rooney of the Oil Heat Institute, annual Long Island petroleum consumption is on the order of "some •four billion gallons. Whether we like it or not we are a petroleum-based economy."
Mr. Rooney was one of several speakers to testify before the Nassau County Legislature's Planning, Development and Environment Committee on July 19 at its Energy Hearing Update. The first energy hearing was held in April of 2003.
Mr. Rooney, like all of the speakers, urged the legislature to develop an energy plan that focused on diversifying energy sources and increasing conservation and renewable resources, in order to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels.
Two years ago Richard Kessel, chairman of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), told the legislature that Long Island was in de's'perate need of more
power. New York and Connecticut were in litigation over the Cross Sound Cable; Freeport was still in the midst of building a new power plant. The plan to build windmills was still on the distant horizon and there was strong conmiunity opposition over a plan to build a converter station in Wantagh by Neptune Transmissions Systems, which wanted to bring 660 megawatts (MW) of power by an underwater cable from New Jersey to Long Island.
However, "Today we have a very different picture," Legislator David Denenberg, chairman of the Environmental Committee, told the public.
Indeed. The Cross Sound Cable became operational during the blackout of August '03 and remained in operation until early 2004. "By June of 2004 the issues [between New York and Connecticut] were resolved and the (continued on page 2)
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| Title | The-Leader_2005-08-11 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2005 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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