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PROTECT applauds compromise in the state’s proposed classification of the Boreas Ponds tract

Compromise protects Boreas Ponds as Wilderness, while enabling easy public access and a variety of recreational uses on neighboring Wild Forest lands Wilderness Classification for the Boreas Ponds is major milestone in the history of [...]

2019-09-15T13:45:41-04:00January 25, 2018|

Union Tank Car Company pulls the plug on storage of its oil tankers in the Adirondacks, dealing Iowa Pacific a second major setback

The plan by Iowa Pacific Holdings and its owner/CEO Ed Ellis to use the Adirondack Park as a junkyard to store thousands of out-of-service oil tanker railcars has hit significant stumbling blocks in the recent [...]

2019-09-15T13:51:05-04:00December 27, 2017|

PROTECT cheers state action to stop storage of used oil tanker railcars in the Adirondack Park

State submits petition to federal Surface Transportation Board to end use of Sanford Lake Rail Line by Iowa Pacific Holdings, citing companies failures to live up to 2012 agreenents that reopened the rail line. Protect [...]

2019-09-16T00:27:20-04:00December 19, 2017|

Judge rules against Protect the Adirondacks to allow vast expansion of motorized recreational use on the Forest Preserve

On December 1st, Judge Gerald Connolly, of State Supreme Court in Albany County, issued his decision in the lawsuit brought by Protect the Adirondacks against the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency [...]

2019-09-16T00:28:44-04:00December 7, 2017|

PROTECT, Local Government and Business Leaders Release New Video “Don’t Trash the Adirondack Park” about oil tanker storage on remote rail lines in the Adirondack Park

4th shipment of over 20 new oil tankers was transported into the Adirondack Park on November 15th; over 80 oil tankers are now stored on siding track on the Boreas River and south of Tahawus [...]

2019-09-16T00:30:08-04:00November 16, 2017|

Three shipments of used oil tankers have been transported to the Adirondacks for indefinite storage

Over the past month, three shipments of used out-of-service oil tanker railcars have been transported to the Adirondack Park by Iowa Pacific Holdings for indefinite storage on its dead-end, 30-mile-long Sanford Lake Railway line that [...]

2019-09-16T00:31:49-04:00November 10, 2017|

PROTECT applauds New Yorkers for Voting No on Proposal 1 and Voting Yes on Proposal 3. Votes show strong public support for the Forest Preserve and the Adirondack Park

Proposal 1 voted down by overwhelming margin the question about whether to hold a new constitutional convention in 2018. Proposal 3 passed by over 100,000 votes in close vote that showed the great concern that [...]

2019-09-17T23:50:56-04:00November 8, 2017|

25 More Oil Tanker Railcars Transported to Adirondack Park; Where are NYS Environmental Agencies?

With more than 50 oil tanker railcars stored in the Adirondacks indefinitely there is still no action from the Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency, despite Governor's Opposition to Railcar Storage   As [...]

2019-09-17T23:51:57-04:00October 31, 2017|

PROTECT applauds Governor Cuomo’s statement on storing oil tankers in the Adirondacks: “we oppose it 100%.”

While Governor Cuomo has come against this ill-advised plan, now we need action from the Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency At an address at the Glens Falls Hospital on October 25, 2017 [...]

2019-09-17T23:53:21-04:00October 26, 2017|

Local governments and environmental groups oppose storage of oil tanker rail cars in the Adirondacks, but where is Governor Cuomo and state environmental protection agencies?

A Total Disgrace: oil tankers have arrived in the Adirondack Park and are stored on track in the Forest Preserve 28 Oil Tanker rail cars were transported through Saratoga and Warren counties on October 16th [...]

2019-09-17T23:55:08-04:00October 24, 2017|
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