Town of Ulster Supervisor James Quigley on Initial Reports to Show Fiscal Benefits/Impacts of Niagara, Incremental Infrastructure Costs. “Have we seen anything? No. Because they don’t exist yet.”

By Rebecca Martin

Attached is video from tonight’s Town of Ulster Town Board meeting (11/6/14).  Public comment begins at 29:10 where the board (i.e. Supervisor James Quigley) defensively answers questions regarding the Niagara Bottling Plant proposal. The questions posed include those on infrastructure costs, trailor truck traffic, City of Kingston resolutions, tax implications and a request to learn of any analysis on the fiscal benefits/costs of the Niagara project.  Residents were told that the TOU is awaiting the start of the SEQR process and has done no preliminary research or has any information to share.

What confidence should the people be expected to have in a municipality wanting  ‘Lead Agency’ in SEQR, on a proposal that may have unprecedented regional consequences, without having any preliminary factual information at all?  With that being the case, Supervisor Quigley in his comments concludes that the City of Kingston’s Water Department through this proposed water sale will receive monies to cover $16,000,000 in infrastructure repairs (although in Superintendent Judy Hansen’s powerpoint, the costs portrayed are closer to $18,000,000)  and will keep the cost of resident’s water bill from rising by at least 30%.  Without any factual preparation, what is he basing this on?  The City of Kingston’s Water Department doesn’t even have a final copy of an engineering report it hired a consultant to create back in the Spring.

Can one assume then that all of the information portrayed by our elected officials in favor of the proposal is nothing more than what was written in the initial EAF (Environmental Assessment Form)  by the Chazen Companies on behalf of Niagara?  A  form riddled with errors with an ACTION that does not include the entire scope of the project.

2 thoughts on “Town of Ulster Supervisor James Quigley on Initial Reports to Show Fiscal Benefits/Impacts of Niagara, Incremental Infrastructure Costs. “Have we seen anything? No. Because they don’t exist yet.””

  1. I emailed WAMC asking them to cover this ongoing story about a month ago. They did finally have impartial coverage of a public meeting, but there has been no on air discussion or debate. Then I notice that one of their underwriters, The Chazen Companies is working for Niagara. This is a regional and wider environmental issue where the one big source that might bring the debate wider attention has probably been influenced by corporate donor money. WAMC needs to hear from concerned citizens who want them to air a fair and open conversation about this project and it’s long term. wider implications. What about repurposing or decommissioning a plant if and when single use plastic bottled water bans are passed?, water privatization?, normalization of depletion of the watershed?
    They want to squeeze out the sponge that is the watershed, and the effect of that is hard to show or prove until the damage is done. There are three locations under consideration. If any of them is built it’s equally bad. NIMBY isn’t enough. The only benefit is the short term cash infusion to the host municipality, so if the project goes through it may as well be here. We have to help each other look down the road to envision how our present actions will look decades from now.
    I’d like the Town of Ulster to consider repurposing some of the existing empty infrastructure at Tech City for the coming medical marijuana production NYS is now planning. That is a growth industry, and hemp may follow if we can get out of our own way.
    But first the ideas need to circulate.

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