Competitive Power Ventures, Inc. - Energy Highway

05/21/2012 16:56 4012727456 LIUNA REGIONAL OFFIC PAGE 01/02
LiUNA!
NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL OFFICE
226 South Main Street * Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401) 751-5010 • Fax: (401) 561-3340
g'SABIToNi
iiitycrreaurer
May 18, 2012
The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
Dear Governor Cuomo,
'MIS* to the
1#dittidint
1k1 IRE
LkEY
TIPHARDSON
•
'COLE
PENN
+a tORRE
I am writing to you today on behalf of the membership of the Laborers'
International Union of North America (LIUNA) and all the people of New York to seek
your support for an outstanding energy infrastructure project in the Hudson Valley. This
project should become part of the State's Energy Master Plan which you spoke about in.
your 2012 State of the State.
The CPV Valley Energy Center is a proposed $900 million, 650 megawatt (MW)
clean, natural gas-powered electric generating facility to be located in the town of
Wa.wayanda, New York, just outside of Middletown in Orange County. If construction
commences by early next year, as planned, this facility can be online as soon as 2016 to
help meet our growing energy demand in the region.
The addition of this clean burning natural gas fired facility to the state's fleet of
generation would serve to enhance both the overall reliability of New York's electric
system, and our environmental profile.
This project certainly fits the vision you put forth as part of the goals and
objectives for the Energy Highway. It's geographic location makes it an excellent
candidate to help move power into much needed areas, it could conceivably come on-line
in a short period of time since it is almost through the permitting process, and it's
technology is state-of-the-art, The high efficiency of the CPV Valley Energy Center's
proposed combined-cycle technology is well proven, along with the environmental
benefits the technology delivers.
Oftftto:
teit, NW
DC
1165
3.20
1072.754
Oti4..arg
Certainly key to LIUNA is the economic benefits that it will bring. Again, you
spoke about the need for jobs and this project would employ hundreds of union workers
during its 30-month construction period.. That would be a tremendous economic boom for
this region at a time when it is sorely needed. The project will also provide more than
$30 million in local tax revenues, with much of that going to help the local school district
which has been hit hard by budget cuts the past few years.
Feel the Power