Wind power brings business to Hudson, but can waters handle it? - Times Union
Wind power brings business to Hudson, but can waters handle it?
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Riverkeeper skipper John Lipscomb talks about channels on a map while Barbara Heinzen of New Baltimore, left, looks on as they take a boat ride on the Hudson River on May 24 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union Show More Show Less Riverkeeper skipper John Lipscomb takes a boat ride on the Hudson River on May 24 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and the Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union
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Riverkeeper skipper John Lipscomb points to channels on a map while Barbara Heinzen of New Baltimore, left, looks on as they take a boat ride on the Hudson River on May 24 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union
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Eric Remillard of Coeymans Hamlet, right, and Ashley Redfield, local resident look at the Hudson River shoreline from the Riverkeepers boat on May 24 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union
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From left, Joe Van Der Loo of Port of East Greenbush, Barbara Heinzen of New Baltimore, Ashley Redfield, local resident, and Eric Remillard of Coeymans chat while taking a boat ride on the Riverkeeper on the Hudson River on May 24 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union
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The Lafarge Ravena Cement Plant taken from the Riverkeepers boat on the Hudson River on May 24 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union
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Photo from the book Up River: Man-made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy, of the Lafarge Ravena Cement Plant on May 24, 2023 in Ravena. Opponents of growth plans at Port of Coeymans and Hudson Riverkeeper environmental group took a boat to look at how the area's shoreline will change if all the plans to build wind tower equipment in the area come to fruition. Lori Van Buren/Times Union
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COEYMANS — When John Lipscomb pilots his 36-foot wooden Riverkeeper boat up the Hudson River he sometimes thinks about what the waterway looked like in pre-Colonial times before it was harnessed for industrial commerce.
“You wouldn’t recognize it,” Lipscomb said during a recent trip upriver, as he spread out a navigation chart of the river showing its various twists and turns between New York City and Troy.
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