I just returned from the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District meeting, held in Inlet, despite the HRBRRD office in Mayfield on the Great Sacandaga Lake.
I live in Northville and spent 10 years as a trustee and board member of the New York State Long Island Power Authority, among other positions of public trust that demanded the highest regard for the citizens and businesses served - and an adherence to tenets of policy-making integrity that cleave to the letter of the law.
The HRBRRD, Department of Environmental Conservation and Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform high-speed destruction of Sacandaga permit history, clueless disregard for the benefit to the greater economy and shocking state-sponsored harm to the region at-large defies explanation.
The growing light of public scrutiny finds the time-crunched process taken by these government entities ever dark. It's time for the HRBRRD, DEC and GORR to be called on the carpet and reviewed as the HRBRRD rules fall into a swamp, as they should, by the governor and state leaders with integrity. Find me on Facebook.
NANCY NUGENT, Esq.
Northville