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Developer behind Susquehanna River hydroelectric project responds to politicians’ criticism - pennlive.com

A developer behind a proposed hydroelectric project on the lower Susquehanna River in York County has told U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker that elected officials opposing the plan “have not been properly informed.”

In a Tuesday letter to Smucker, William McMahon Jr. of Reading-based York Energy Storage LLC said he was “surprised and disappointed” by a Feb. 12 news conference in Wrightsville held by Smucker, county commissioners and state lawmakers from York and Lancaster counties to denounce the Cuffs Run project across from Lake Clarke.

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