Events

At LIMBA we usually take well conceptualized idea (I think that's a word), and present it to our audience to evaluate, and hopefully, adopt. This mornings meeting was a little different. The proposal to connect The end of Rt. 135 to Rye NY by tunnel was presented by prominent builder, Vincent Polimeni. What was interesting…

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…

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…