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...Harvard lost to some extent its ability to "keep out of it" in February 1972 when, following an unfavorable court decision, environmental groups looked to the University for a commitment not to sell its land to Con Ed and to fight any attempts to take it by eminent domain...
...member of Scenic Hudson, which from the beginning has been the Storm King project's most active opposition. "There has been no change in Harvard's attitude about Black Rock Forest," Pusey wrote. "We have no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposes proposed by Con...
...conclusions were not what might have been expected in light of those facts. "The issues for and against the Cornwall project have and are being adequately represented by the City of New York, conservation groups and Con Ed," the report stated. "It is not necessary for Harvard to either endorse or condemn the project...
...went on to recommend specifically that while the University should draw attention to unresolved problems and "should express itself strongly on the matter of additional industry near the Cornwall project," Harvard should take "no active steps to prevent construction...such as refusing to sell to Con Ed the 240 acres of the Black Rock that will be flooded by the storage reservoir or by presenting this land to the Palisades Interstate Park before Con Ed can obtain ownership...
...controversy over Black Rock by stating, without explanation, that there had been no change in the status of Harvard's attitude toward the forest. Environmentalists have returned to the Federal Power Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers in an attempt to reopen hearings on the project. And Con Ed, while maintaining that the pumped storage plant is still needed, has begun to move toward alternatives and has removed Storm King from its ten year plan, scheduling it now for its 20 year forecast...