Submitted by David S. Smith, Feb 6, 2007 13:12

NYRI is engaged in a new and more aggressive PR campaign designed to flood the media with misstatements about its power line project. For example, NYRI's most recent press release warns of dependence on "foreign" sources of energy, without noting that NYRI itself is foreign-owned and controlled. NYRI's spokesmen talk of "clean" energy, but the fact is that NYRI will transport the very same coal-generated energy that is already contributing to global warming. And NYRI's new PR campaign works hard to obscure the economic damage the project would inflict on upstate communities through higher electric rates. As a "downstate" resident who treasures the natural beauty of upstate New York, I trust that the Sun will closely examine the output of NYRI's public relations machine and not accept it at face value. David S. Smith

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