The Adirondack Council is calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to stop a shipping company from its planned use of tracks deep in the Adirondack Park as a storage and inspection area for oil train tank cars. Plans by the Chicago-based Iowa-Pacific holdings to put the tanker cars on tracks in places like Tahawus, the site of a 19th Century mine and a portal into the High Peaks area poses a threat to the area’s waterways and wild nature. [Read more…] (By Rick Karlin, Capitol bureauon August 19, 2015 3:18 PM;Capitol Confidential)
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