Word: connessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasoning in approaching the University was simple: Harvard is a prestigious institution, one not easily bullied even by a utility giant such as Consolidated Edison. Harvard owns 300 acres of land crucial to the project. And if Harvard were to announce its opposition and a steadfast refusal to sell, Con Ed might just pack up and go home...
...University came was a statement earlier this fall announcing it would not consider selling its land unless under direct threat of successful legal action from the utility. And the reasoning here, too, was clear: After spending over $20 million fighting environmentalists in and out of court for ten years, Con Ed would steamroller anything in its path--even Harvard--as it approached the end of a long, bumpy legal road...
...Con Ed had hoped that it could build enough nuclear power plants to drive Storm King's pumps, but EPA projected that because of "licensing and other problems," which have mired the nuclear projects in a swamp of delays, the drive would have to come from fossil fuel--increasingly expensive, and in short supply...
...week, Con Ed said it was studying the proposal in order to prepare a detailed response...
...Con Ed and the Federal Power Commission have claimed the plant would kill 3 per cent of the striped bass hatch yearly; the AEC study, released this week by Sen. Abraham S. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) estimates a 25 per cent to 75 per cent annual kill...