The president kills Keystone XL 1.0 but fast-tracks raising the Bayonne Bridge by as much as a seven-story building for jumbo ships into harbors that really can't take any more environmental hits.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting:
One of the most remarkable transformations is proposed not far from the Ironbound. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey wants to raise the Bayonne Bridge, a soaring steel arch span that connects Bayonne, N.J., with New York City's Staten Island borough, by 64 feet. The $1 billion project would allow post-Panamax ships to reach Port Newark and the Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminals in New Jersey and Howland Hook in New York. It was fast-tracked by President Barack Obama last year and is expected to be completed in 2016. Channels near the bridge will be deepened to 50 feet.And this president kills the Keystone XL 1.0.
Cronyism.
Picking winners and losers.
US Coast Guard approved.
EPA saying: "...what just happened?"
Big thank-you to a reader; I never would have seen this. Way below my radar.
i wonder what they will do with the sediment from the channel dredging..i would think that going into 50 ft of MUCK there would be PCB's and other items long ago considered Hazardous..
ReplyDeleteis that muck just hauled out to see and dumped, or is that the base for the New Jersey Beach repair..
Perhaps it was fast-tracked with the expectation that they might find Jimmy Hoffa's body somewhere in that muck.
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