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leads in sanitation election By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
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AfTER REVIEwING AN absentee ballot, sanitary district attorney Tom Garry, second from right, presents the opened ballot to John Ciampoli, far left, Gabriel Boxer and Allison Levy.
More than eight months after challenger Gabriel Boxer appeared to win the Sanitary District 1 commissioner’s election over appointed Commissioner Gwynette Campbell, a different result is shaping up. As of press time, Campbell, who lives in Inwood, had an unofficial 205-vote lead over Boxer after the counting — and challenging — of the roughly 900 absentee ballots that were cast. After the election last July 11, Boxer, a Hewlett resident, Continued on page 17
Equinor officials address concerns about wind farm By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
O n c e a g a i n l a s t we e k , Equinor, a Norwegian energy company that is planning to build a wind energy farm off the South Shore of Long Island, addressed community members who had questions about how the project would impact their lives. In Atlantic Beach Village Hall on March 22, officials from the company detailed the two-part, $3 billion project. Empire 1 would supply power to Brooklyn, and Empire 2 would supply towns on the South Shore, and connect to the E.F. Barrett Power
Station in Island Park. A total of 147 wind turbines, each 886 feet tall, would be built 15 to 30 miles offshore. The cables for the turbines would be routed underground beneath Long Beach to the power station. Equinor’s Long Island community engagement manager, Susan Lienau, explained that the project would help achieve the state’s climate goals: a 70 percent renewable energy rating by 2030, the production of 9 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035, 100 percent zero-emission electricity by 2040 and an 85 percent reduction in greenhouse gases. “It’s some of the most ambitious clean energy goals really in
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principal engineer, Equinor the country,” Lienau said. “Offshore wind is a big factor in reaching (those goals) for the state, and Equinor has a big role in that.” S o m e o f t h e at t e n d e e s expressed concerns about potential disturbances the project could create during the summer,
when Long Island attracts visitors from around the world. “During construction, you’re going to be building a substation that’s in my backyard,” Island Park resident Debbie Slot said to Equinor officials. “What is the noise factor, (the) safety factor? How are you protecting the community?” “We understand there are
concerns,” Equinor’s principal engineer, Alex Gomez, said. “We all love this part of Long Island, because it has this unique charm to it, and we want to make sure we maintain that.” Linda Baessler, a longtime Atlantic Beach village trustee, said she was concerned about the possibility that Equinor’s Continued on page 2