Power Meeting
By Melissa deCordova
Sun Staff Writer - Evening Sun - April 13th, 2006
NORWICH - A group of city, county and business leaders gathered in a closed meeting with two executives from New York Regional Interconnect, Inc. Wednesday morning at the Norwich City Firehouse.
The press was denied access because the meeting, convened by members of the city, was not an official meeting of any public body. Fifth Ward Alderman Joseph P. Maiurano said the two NYRI representatives in attendance requested that the media be excluded.
“They said they would prefer to meet with the newspaper afterward. As far as I was concerned, there was nothing in that meeting that the paper couldn’t have listened to,” Maiuriano said. The Albany-based power line company has proposed erecting high voltage lines from Oneida County to a transmission plant in Orange County that in turn feeds New York City’s electricity customers. Towers that average 115 feet tall and spaced every 800 feet would cut through Sherburne and Norwich and possibly Guilford and Bainbridge or Oxford and Greene depending on which route is chosen.
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