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SUMMARY:GOOD FRIDAY - NO MEETING
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URL:https://limba.net/calendar/good-friday-no-meeting-3/
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SUMMARY:Keyspan- Bob Teetz\, Director of Environmental Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Today at LIMBA we had the opportunity to hear about what is going on with Keyspan Energy’s Emissions and Air Quality initiatives.  Bob Teetz\, Directory of Environmental Engineering and Compliance for Keyspan\, gave a broad and deep presentation of where our electricity comes from\, what fuels are used to generate it\, and what is being done to make the on island power generation cleaner.  An overview of the external interconnects for power importation\, Keyspan’s own plants and third party plants was the first part of the presentation.  Keyspan doesn’t use any coal to fuel their plants\, only #6 fuel oil\, Jet Fuel\, and Natural Gas are used.  These more expensive\, cleaner fuels\, contribute to our higher rates here.  The imported power is generated in several ways\, including nuclear and coal.  Lower priced imported power is projected to serve a larger percentage of demand as the Neptune project comes online.  Most of Keyspan’s larger plants are dual-fuel\, switching between Natural Gas and #6 low-sulfur oil.Given this setup\, an over view of emissions was presented\, with some controversy.  In total pollutant output\, Keyspan has the #2 producer\, in the Northport power station.  This is mostly unavoidable\, because it is the largest power station in the system at 1500 Megawatts\, and I believe the largest station on the east coast.  When compared on a pollution quantity per megawatt generated\, Keyspan comes out better than the national average\, but you are also comparing that to coal-fired plants.  There was some contesting of the measurement of pollution and Keyspan’s standings in it\, but a good picture of what is going on in general was presented.We moved on to a primer on repowering generating stations\, describing the way that the current power plants are architected.  Older technology conventional power plants run at approximately 34% efficiency.  Newer\, combined cycle plants run at about 50% efficiency\, and produce 90% less pollution.  They also use higher priced fuel\, either natural gas or jet fuel.  Newer plants\, also cannot use what is called once-through cooling\, which takes massive amounts of seawater in and out of the plant to cool it.  They must use cooling towers\, which sap efficiency\, but don’t impact the aquatic environment as much.  The options for repowering each of the older base load stations were discussed\, pros and cons.   Mr Teetz pointed out that some locations are not suitable for repowering. Northport would have to improve transmission lines to the site and the cost would be several hundred $million dollars. Port Jefferson on the other hand is less amenable to repowering because there is no more flat land on which to build.The opportunities for the future in terms of increasing capacity\, burning cleaner fuels and scrubbing emissions were outlined.  A lively Q and A was held throughout\, with our resident skeptics holding Bob’s feet to the fire\, which he handled with aplomb.  In sum\, there are some opportunities to make great strides in reducing powerplant pollution on Long Island\, but there is some debate about whether this will make a big impact on air quality here\, as our regional air quality is affected mostly by wind-borne pollution from the west\, and locally generated transport pollution\, cars and trucks.  Again\, an important presentation on issues that affect us directly\, in both our lungs and pocketbooks.  Another Friday morning well spent and well informed at LIMBA.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/keyspan-bob-teetz-director-of-environmental-engineering/
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SUMMARY:Phil Nolan- New Initiative to keep Islip vibrant.
DESCRIPTION:Phil Nolan\, the recently ( November 2006 ) elected Supervisor of the Town of Islip\, came to speak at LIMBA this morning\, introducing himself and talking about his experiences to date.  Islip is a town of about 330\,000 people\, with many challenges and bumps in the road\, some of which were discussed today.  Phil is a super busy fellow handling the day to day issues of government in a progressive town.  Rather than a standard stump speech\, the session was conducted mostly as a Q and A session.  He brought some key people in his administration to help him address some of the questions posed today.  The most frequent ones were prompted by the largest asset that the town has\, MacArthur Airport.  There are two developments regarding the airport\, the resolution of the concrete apron problems at the new terminal\, and the west side redevelopment project.   \nThe apron problems are in the beginning stages of being resolved\, and they will be because the problem is putting a crimp in the ability for the airport to be better utilized.  Phil would like to see the marketing focus of the airport be changed to start selling it to carriers instead of passengers\, to attract a more diverse base of airlines.  The Smithtown Avenue side of the airport will get a makeover\, which is in the planning stages of finding a new home for the existing businesses there\, and then making way for new structures. \nIn the Q & A portion of the meeting\, Charlie Widener’s question about the Plumber’s Examining Board prompted a long give and take about the day to day machinations of government\, the challenges of two-party politics in a town long dominated by one party\, and the difficulty of separating the actions necessary for the greater good from the impacts on the narrow groups sometimes affected.  This is going to be an issue when talking about the ground leases on the islands of the Great South Bay that are in Islip\, Captree\, Sexton\, and Havemeyer Islands\, as the families that have deep roots on the islands will have to pay quite a bit more to lease that ground\, as the market value of the leases has grown substantially since they were last priced.   \nWalter Bernstein brought up the question of addressing the "Youth Drain" on Long Island by reducing the cost of living through regional consolidation of government departments.  Phil addressed this by describing the "Collisions of Power" that happen when you actually try to make changes.  The higher the dollars at stake\, the better the advocates are at arguing for the status quo.  It is apparent that there are savings to be had\, but what is the correct formula to achieve it\, is the question. \nThe last question was regarding how the working relationships are going between the new guy in town and the traditional incumbents that are still a large part of town government.  After being the first Democrat elected in the town in 35 years\, Phil has done a few things to upset the apple carts\, but he feels that he is there to do his job\, and that they have a mostly good working relationship.  Out of every twenty resolutions brought to a vote\, nineteen are unanimously agreed on\, but that twentieth one that has a sticking point is usually a high profile issue that is attractive to the news media.  Phil says he isn’t needlessly confrontational\, but won’t back down when he feels his convictions are challenged.  His formula is to say what you are going to do\, and do it. \nWhen we have a LIMBA meeting that has a focus on a person in the public eye rather than a subject focus\, we always get a  good sense of the person that is unobtainable by  reading press accounts.  You hear the person\, get to talk to them\, and really get a feel for their character.  Our thanks are extended to the affable and plain spoken Mr. Nolan in coming out to talk to our group about his town and his agenda in governing it. \nPictured\, left to right: Al Werner\, Gene Murphy\, Bill Mannix\, Ernie Fazio\, Phil Nolan\, and Gina La Vecchia \nVideo supplied by MyLITV.Com:
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/phil-nolan-new-initiative-to-keep-islip-vibrant/
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SUMMARY:Phillip Cardinale\, Supervisor\, Town of Riverhead
DESCRIPTION:This morning Riverhead Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale made a presentation on the planning and restoration projects in Riverhead. There are a number of things being planned\, including riverfront improvements\, Calverton airport redevelopment\, and Rt 58 transportation improvements. \n    In the downtown Main Street\, which is relatively small\, there are plans for the restoration of the theater. Mr. Cardinale would like to see the parking be located on the north side of Main Street\, leaving the riverfront available for park-like amenities. A three part zoning plan would accommodate retail\, commercial\, and residential uses in the downtown area. \n    Much of the cost that would ordinarily be borne by the municipality\, is being shouldered by the winning redevelopment company. That company\, Apollo\, is a multi-billion dollar company that will have an opportunity to earn back some of their outlay from other development companies that may appear in the next three years. This arrangement has been applauded by the supervisor because all the risk falls on the shoulders of the developer.\n    Later in his presentation Mr Cardinale gave us some insight on the redevelopment of Calverton. There appears to be no attempt to destroy the excellent runways at the airport. We told him that this was important to us\, because they can accommodate any size aircraft and would be essential if their were an emergency that warranted their use. The airport development will be multiple use. They expect to build out 7.5 million square feet in industrial park space\, and commercial space. \n   I asked about rail freight\, and light rail for passenger movement. There has been some planning and thought on that issue\, but other than a rail spur in Calverton\, I did not get the impression that that planning had been given high priority.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/phillip-cardinale-supervisor-town-of-riverhead/
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