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This afternoon, 90 activists representing Food & Water Watch, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Two Row and other members of the Stop Danskammer Coalition took to the water to protest the Danskammer fracked gas plant expansion proposal currently under review by the New York State Siting Board. Activists deployed the historic sloops
Woody Guthrie and
Clearwater in a multiple hour on-water protest against the proposal.
The proposal currently under review is from Wall Street-backed private equity firm, Tiger Infrastructure LLC, who has filed an application to replace the current Danskammer peaker plant, with a brand new, fully operational fracked gas plant. Speakers at a press conference held in tandem with the protest highlighted additional concerns with the proposal’s threats to public health and water and air quality. If approved, the plant will go from running just 5% of the year to over 70%, increasing exposure to dangerous pollutants inclu ....

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