News roundup for Thursday, Sept. 18
Back soon: The Barnegat Lighthouse. Image via islandbeachnj.org.
Yesterday in Avon, environmentalists reiterated their opposition to offshore oil drilling. Gov. Corzine, in a letter to the U.S. Interior Secretary on Tuesday, did the same. A bill passed Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives that would ease the drilling ban, allowing Atlantic or Pacific ocean-border states (like us) to approve drilling for oil or natural gas 50 or more miles off their coasts.
The state on Tuesday withdrew its proposal to continue dumping sludge at the EnCap site while the project’s fate is still TBD. EnCap, which last week terminated its deal with Donald Trump, has until the end of the month to file its Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
Generating controversy: Proposed high-voltage power lines across Sussex County.
Diluted muriatic acid spilled on Lanes Mill Road at the Brick-Lakewood border this morning. Lovely.
The state appellate division rejected environmentalists’ legal challenge to the Xanadu megacomplex yesterday.
Compost, windmills and solar panels are meeting resistance in some parts.
Butterflies seem to be rarer in north and central Jersey this year.
The old Barnegat Lighthouse on LBI will shine again starting Jan. 1.
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