Events

This morning's speaker was Keyspan Chairman Bob Catell. Mr. Catell's presentation addressed the growing demand for natural gas. The demand for natural gas has been growing at a rate that makes the supply of the commodity difficult. There are two pipelines under consideration. Islander East is one of them. Islander East will bring natural gas…

Today's speaker was Dr Jonathan Gibralter, President of Farmingdale State University. Farmingdale was an agricultural school, as times and needs changed, so did the curriculum.The school has adopted many new programs, and redirected it's focus to technologies that are needed for today's world. At the same time standards for admission have been made more stringent. …

There are new considerations that bode well for repowering

This morning, despite the snow we had our regular Friday morning meeting. We ordered a cake to celebrate Paul Townsend's birthday. Paul and Terry could not get out of their driveway, so we wished him a happy birthday in absentia.. The topic was the Broadwater proposal to create a liquefied natural gas depot in Long…

 Another friday morning, another stimulating LIMBA session, worth rising early for.  Today we had Michael Posillico speak on the utilization of Brownfields sites as starting points for redevelopment.  Michael, a scion of one of the families that built out the island, has his own firm, Blue Water Environmental, specializing in remediation of these sites.  Along…

 Fred Krebs, the president of Long Island's freight rail system spoke to our LIMBA audience this morning. Fred started by telling us those facts that he is, and should be, proud of. That is the fact that the number of freight cars on Long Island has more than doubled since he and his company, NY…

Our speaker this morning was Greenport mayor, David Kapell. In my promotion of this morning's meeting I promised an interesting meeting. I can reassure it was an understatement. The audience was impressed.. Comments like "Mayor Kapell should teach a required course on governing to the rest of Long Island's elected officials" were heard. Mr. Kapell…