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CONSOLIDATED EDISON will probably deny this, but there is a giant power utility in New York that seems to take pleasure in gratuitously denying reports concerning its activities. Its name is Consolidated Edison...
CONSOLIDATED EDISON spokesmen also enjoy denying that the project will cause any adverse environmental effects. The company will cite upon request a study by the New York State Conservation Department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries indicating that only 2.5 per cent of the striped bass in the Hudson would be killed by the plant's operation. It does not often cite more recent testimony showing an impact closer to 25 per cent, nor the rumor that the original report misplaced a decimal point...
Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, quietly began the initial stages of construction last week for its controversial power plant at Storm King Mountain near Cornwall...
...must conclude that Con Edison just doesn't give a damn," Saunders said. "Con Ed thinks it is big enough to thumb its nose at the public and get away with...
Soaring electricity bills are angering homeowners all over the U.S., but the situation appears to be most highly charged in the New York area, where Con Edison's rates are among the highest in the nation. Several hundred residents of affluent Westchester County, which has possibly the largest concentration of all-electric homes in the U.S., have banded together to protest rate increases that have hiked their monthly bills from an average of $136.87 last March to $252.52 this month, an increase of 85%. Says Housewife Tena Jackson: "My electric bill was $267 in February-$98 more over last...