New York Regional Interconnect (NYRI), a privately held company, plans to run 200 miles of 13-story high-voltage power lines through our countryside, our towns and our homes. We're calling on you, residents from Marcy to New Windsor, to take 5 minutes a day to stop NYRI. Working closely with legislators and the groups spearheading the Stop NYRI initiative, we will get an organized, prioritized agenda out to you, and in turn, make it easy for you to act instantly on the most timely issues. And here's what you can do today.... How this will affect you. Just joining us? Here's a list of additional things you can do today. Where we are in the fight Find out if your town is on one of NYRI's routes. Where your elected representatives stand and how to contact them. Help us to spread the word in your area. Maps, news and other great anti-NYRI links. Our goal and how we plan to reach it At stake for the nation | At stake for the region Setting a terrible precedent that will encourage profiteering by private energy companies by allowing them to circumvent local, state and national laws and interests Article VII of the New York State Public Service Law sets forth a review process for the consideration of any application "to construct and operate a major utility transmission facility." The NYRI project clearly fits this classification. However, citing the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), NYRI plans to appeal directly to the federal government (FERC and the DOE) for approval of its project. Why? Because NYRI's project is not in the public interest of any of the communities it will be built in. What's more, the project directly violates an act of Congress: 73 miles of one proposed route and 4 miles of the other run through the Upper Delaware River corridor, which is protected by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act from exactly this sort of use. NYRI's routes were chosen because they are the cheapest, and the company proposes to run the lines above ground because it would cost 5 times more to bury them. Even the power towers—projected for 2011, but more realistically not to be expected before 2016—are a bad idea. They are an investment in soon-to-be-obsolete technology.1  If NYRI's project is approved by FERC, private—and in this case, foreign1 —investors will be granted the right of eminent domain and the right to bulldoze directly through 70 communities, clear-cutting a 300-foot-wide 200-mile path, all for monetary gain and, falsely, in the name of "national interest." Our federal government needs to support energy projects that minimize energy needs rather than expedite poorly planned projects, which only encourages privately held companies like NYRI to seek big profits at the expense of the communities affected by them.

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