Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original plans for the Storm King project were announced in September 1962, and Con Ed's official application for license made in early 1963. The plan involved blasting away part of the base of Storm King Mountain and the installation of eight giant turbines. A 40-foot-diameter tunnel would be carved through the mountain and beyond it for two miles to a high mountain valley...
Dams and dikes would form a basin which could contain eight billion gallons of water. During slack energy periods, electricity generated at other Con Ed plants would be used to pump water into the reservoir; during peak periods, this water would be released to generate electricity to meet the increased demand. Ironically, five kilowatts of energy produced elsewhere would be needed to obtain four kilowatts from the Storm King project...
...battle against the project began in 1963, when L.O. Rothschild, a New York attorney and conservationist, received his copy of Con Ed's 1962 annual report, containing an artist's rendering and description of the Storm King facility, Enraged, Rothschild wrote to The New York Times, and the Times, in an editorial, criticized the plan to "plunk down a couple of power in- stallations right in the heart of one of the most stunning natural regions in the eastern United States...
...years, appeals and positions from both sides have passed through various courts on the East Coast, with Con Ed providing testimony and the conservation groups providing countertestimony, and each side winning and losing court battles in alternating phases...
Throughout the ten years, Harvard has looked on the proceedings with a detached interest. The University was "approached less than a year ago and asked if they were still amenable to talk about the sale of the land," said James Hillary, a representative of Con Ed's land acquisition office. "They said they would be amenable to talk about it, but that was about all." Now, with the change in administration, the procedure must start over again, Hillary said...