Congress approved $400 million for wildlife preservation, but it didn't stop there and thank goodness it didn't. They wanted us to consider how we were spending that money. |
Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound, |
It actually meets a standard agreed to by New York, Connecticut and the EPA that doesn't need to be in place until 2014. |
It is the wettest month in 104 years. It was 16 inches of rain, we have had 7 dams break, though there was no significant loss of property in those events. |
It's a tremendously robust document. |
It's about the health and well-being of our children and the health and well-being of our world. Kids need to reconnect to the outdoors. |
Our issue is that we didn't issue the permit or inspect the site, ... We saw the basin on the news, and saw the application on the desk for that. When we saw the mudslide, we knew something had to be done. |
That's what I call insanity. |
The challenges are large and we have to work together. |
The federal standards are simply not good enough. If we can't get the federal government to act, then we have to take action in any way we can. |
Water was inches from the top at many dams and there were a lot of close calls, but I hope people in Connecticut knew we were on top of it. |
We had a lot of rain and a lot of luck. I am not pointing fingers at Massachusetts but the cards did not fall for them as they fell for us. |
We?ll tell Islander East that the Long Island Sound is not the Wild West, ... The costs for the state of Connecticut couldn?t be higher. |
We're going to drive the nation into doing what it has to do about climate change. Times have changed, and we have to get the hint. |
You are to be commended. You have been patient. You have been dogged. |