Application for New Windsor oil yard scrapped
The scrapping of plans for a crude oil distribution yard in New Windsor hasn’t freed the Hudson Valley from dangers associated with a rail or boating accident, a Riverkeeper official said Monday.
Global Companies LLC has notified the state Department of Environmental Conservation that it is withdrawing permit applications for work at its terminals at the mid-Hudson riverfront, but that won’t cut the amount of oil already traversing the region, Kate Hudson, director of Riverkeeper’s Watershed Program, said Monday.
Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson said in a statement last week that Global’s decision reduces the potential for spills because it eliminates one avenue for increasing the amount of crude oil being transported on the river in barges and ships, and along it on oil trains.
Those trains regularly pull 100 or more tanker cars, each capable of holding about 30,000 gallons. Concerns focus on potential spills into the Hudson River, as well as explosions and fires that have occurred elsewhere.
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