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Activist groups upset 35 percent of PCBs will remain in river
May 31, 2015 12:02 am
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From Campaign for a Cleaner Hudson website.[/caption]
Kyle Hughes for NYSNYS News in The Daily Freeman reports that activist groups up and down the Hudson Valley are upset that about 35 percent of the PCBs in the Hudson River won’t be removed by the current dredging project. “There’s a big campaign on now in the media for ‘I Fish NY’ … and I know that Gov. Cuomo is a big fisherman,” said Gil Hawkins of the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association. “He likes to fish. We all like to fish. It’s part of our hunting and gathering instincts.... But there has to be an asterisk when it comes to the Hudson River because it’s catch and release only and I’m not sure you want to see that in an ad for coming to New York state and saying, ‘Come to New York State, fish our Hudson River but catch and release only because of the PCB situation.’“ At a press conference May 28 as part of Hudson River Advocacy Day in the Capitol, a variety of groups advocated for additional dredgeing of PCB sediments from the Hudson. General Electric, responsible for the pollution, says it has complied with the EPA settlement to clean up the river. “GE is meeting all of its responsibilities on the Hudson,” Mark Behan, a GE media representative, said in a statement distributed after the press conference. “When dredging is completed this year, GE will have addressed 100 percent of the PCBs that EPA targeted." Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.
From Campaign for a Cleaner Hudson website.[/caption]Kyle Hughes for NYSNYS News in The Daily Freeman reports that activist groups up and down the Hudson Valley are upset that about 35 percent of the PCBs in the Hudson River won’t be removed by the current dredging project. “There’s a big campaign on now in the media for ‘I Fish NY’ … and I know that Gov. Cuomo is a big fisherman,” said Gil Hawkins of the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association. “He likes to fish. We all like to fish. It’s part of our hunting and gathering instincts.... But there has to be an asterisk when it comes to the Hudson River because it’s catch and release only and I’m not sure you want to see that in an ad for coming to New York state and saying, ‘Come to New York State, fish our Hudson River but catch and release only because of the PCB situation.’“ At a press conference May 28 as part of Hudson River Advocacy Day in the Capitol, a variety of groups advocated for additional dredgeing of PCB sediments from the Hudson. General Electric, responsible for the pollution, says it has complied with the EPA settlement to clean up the river. “GE is meeting all of its responsibilities on the Hudson,” Mark Behan, a GE media representative, said in a statement distributed after the press conference. “When dredging is completed this year, GE will have addressed 100 percent of the PCBs that EPA targeted." Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.