Community Power updates

This week WGXC will run a three-part segment I did with Dan Duthie, following up on the conversation I had with Will Yandik in October. Listen Wednesday through Friday nights at 6:15PM at WGXC 90.7FM in Greene or Columbia County, or online. In the meanwhile, I really think you should read up on the current state of affairs regarding the Energy Highway/Power Line project, maybe watch a video on the subject, and then call the Governor and let him know what you think at 518-474-8390. Meanwhile, here are links to Community Power Episodes 06 (with Neil Larson) and 07 (with Will Yandik).

Next Community Power Segment this Friday, LIVE at 6:15 pm

Will Yandik of Farmers and Families for Livingston asks of Governor Cuomo if there is an exit from the Energy Superhighway in an editorial in In My Back Yard. I'll be talking with Will about the state of play in the power line project and asking for your support for WGXC 90.7 FM during our Dead Air fund drive (boo!) on Friday, October 23, from 6:15 pm until 7 pm. You can tune in in Greene and Columbia Counties on 90.7FM or stream live over the intertubez. I'll post an edited version of the show here in a few days. You can go ahead and support the station right now by calling (518) 828-0290 or going to our homepage and clicking on the friendly donate now button. Thanks!!

Community Power Segment #6: Neil Larson

Airing on WGXC 90.7FM Acra, Wednesday, September 16, 2015, the sixth segment of Commuity Power, in which I talk to Neil Larson of Larson Fisher Associates about the process of historical resource surveys and the current state of the Community Resource Survey of Livingston. Tune in at 6:15 PM or listen online.

Community Power Segments 01 - 05 now available here!

Community Power #5 has now aired, and I'm putting the first five segments up so you can listen to them here. As I finish the remaining segments I'll add them. The theme music is the "Apple Pickers' Reel", performed by Larry Hanks, from the Folkways Records' 1972 release Berkeley Farms: Oldtime and Country Style Music of Berkeley.

• Community Power 01 - Will Yandik, Farmers and Families for Livingston, Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition, and Deputy Supervisor of the Town of Livingston. Also, co-producer of this series.
• Community Power 02 - Erin Tobin, Director of Preservation at Preservation League of New York State
• Community Power 03 - Joe Gatti, Livingston Town Historian, and Will Yandik
• Community Power 04 - Pam Kline, founder of Farmers and Families for Livingston.
• Community Power 05 - Hayley Carlock, Director of Environmental Advocacy for Scenic Hudson, and Daniel P. Duthie, a lawyer representing four towns and three organizations before the Public Service Commission.

Community Power Segment #5 airing this week on WGXC 90.7 FM

This week on Community Power, I talk with Hayley Carlock, Director of Environmental Advocacy for Scenic Hudson and Daniel Duthie, a lawyer representing several towns in the Transmission Line project process. We discuss the current state of affairs in the process of approving bids for Transmission Line expansion in the Hudson Valley and the NY State Public Service Commission's technical conference: what the technical conference is for, what happened and what remains to be done. We also discuss prospects moving forward of preventing the project from happening. The interview will air in segments beginning on Wednesday, at 6:15pm on WGXC 90.7 FM and streaming online at wgxc.org. Don't miss it!

Publlic Service Commission AC Transmission Cases Technical Conference, part I

The Public Service Commission has posted video of the webstream from the first part of the technical conference on the various transmission line proposals that are part of the governor's energy superhighway. I'll be talking to Hayley Carlock of Scenic Hudson and Dan Duthie of Strategic Power in the next installment of Community Power which will air on August 19th. LInks to the videos (or webstream if you catch the last one as it's happening) are below.

• Day 1, July 20, 2015.
• Day 2, July 21, 2015.
• Day 3, July 31, 2015.

Community Power Segment 4 airing this week on WGXC!

Tune in to WGXC this week for the fourth segment in the Community Power series. In the coming weeks, I'll be posting each segment that has aired already on Soundcloud, so that you can listen to them at your leisure.

• Part I: Wednesday, July 15 at 6:15 PM
  The first part of my interview with Pam Kline, organizer of Farmers and Families for Livingston, in which we talk about her restoration of her home, a Dutch farmhouse from the colonial era, which is along the proposed route of power line upgrades.
• Part II: Thursday, July 16 at 6:15 PM
  "The second part of my interview with Pam Kline, organizer of Farmers and Families for Livingston (http://www.farmersandfamiliesforlivingston.com/), in which we talk about the organizing of resistance to proposed the Energy Superhighway's local impacts.