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Rep. Eliot Engel lambasted a proposal to set up 10 anchorage sites along the Hudson River as a threat to the area.

Environmental groups suspect the anchorages will actually be used to store oil on barges until prices recover from a glut of oil that began at the end of 2014

There is a significant threat to public safety from Bakken crude oil transported by barge and parked along our coastal villages.”

“This is a solution in search of a problem. There is no need for these additional anchorage sites.”

“As the lifeblood of so many of our communities, we have a responsibility to protect and support the Hudson River, its wildlife and the communities that rely on it.”

I was raised in Palisades, along the Hudson River. Life revolved around the river.

“The desire to expand these sites is predicated on the belief that we’re going to have large increases of crude moving down the Hudson River.”— Sean Patrick Maloney, representative

Legislator Barbara Scuccimarra noted that in 1963 a proposal to construct a hydroelectric plant on Storm King was defeated due to the efforts of community activists. “I’m hoping that will happen again.”