Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right! Don’t Let PSE&G Undermine Environmental Policy and Good Planning. Tell the DEP NOT to Allow Piecemeal Applications. We need your help to stop PSE&G from piecemealing its DEP Freshwater Wetlands and Flood Hazard permit applications for the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission lines. PSE&G recently submitted these permit applications to the [...]
June 5 is National Trails Day and the Sierra Club will be hosting an outing to the Delaware Water Gap. This outing will provide an opportunity to see first hand the beauty of the park and also the threat posed by PSE&G’s powerlines. National Trails Day – Help protect the Water Gap
Jeff Tittel, NJ Sierra Club Director April 22, 2010 PSE&G has announced plans to start construction on the Susquehanna-Roseland power line project this summer. The Sierra Club is outraged by PSE&G’s arrogant attempt to push their project forward. The Sierra Club and other interveners are appealing the Board of Public Utilities decision and PSE&G is [...]
From NJ Chapter Sierra Club: We need your help opposing PSE&G’s Susquehanna-Roseland Transmission line expansion project, which will replace existing 80-foot towers with ones that stand at 195-feet – more than double the current size. The project will destroy environmentally sensitive areas in the Highlands and will be an eyesore in the middle of the [...]
The Appalachian Trail and the Delaware Water Gap are in trouble. PSE&G has applied to the National Park to replace the existing 80’ tall power lines with 195’ monster towers. Please join us on a 3 mile hike to view the existing transmission lines, talk about the impacts, and inspire each other to continue protecting [...]
Delaware River, originally uploaded by joiseyshowaa. The National Park Service has extended the deadline for comments to next Friday, March 12 (see below). The link to the original alert: Alert: The Delaware Water Gap and Appalachian Trail Threatened by Powerline – Speak Out! Fw: National Park Service Delaware Water Gap NRA & Appalachian National Scenic Trail [...]
Delaware River, originally uploaded by joiseyshowaa. From NJ Chapter Sierra Club: PSE&G is proposing to expand their right-of-way through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and across the Appalachian Trail. They propose to add a 500Kv line to the existing 230Kv line and double the height of the existing towers to 175 feet. To [...]
PSE&Gs proposed Susquehanna-Roseland project, with its new towers rising 195 feet into the air carrying both 230kV and 500kV lines, threatens to degrade the New Jersey Highlands, destroy scenic vistas, increase the electromagnetic field in the vicinity of the lines, decrease property values, and adversely affect tourism. PSE&Gs proposed project is in direct conflict with [...]