Altering Forest Preserve is rare, but it's necessary

Betty Little

October 27, 2009

Post Star Editorial
Posted: Friday, October 23, 2009 10:00 am

You'd think the last thing any loyal, tree-hugging environmentalist would support is a power line cut right through the Adirondack Forest Preserve.

But in a rare display of kinship between environmental groups, Adirondack community leaders and big business, they're supporting a statewide ballot proposition to run a three-mile electrical line through the environmentally sensitive state forest preserve to provide emergency power to the community of Tupper Lake.

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