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NEW YORK, NY--While New York on April 16 approved running a new 600-MW power cable across the Hudson River from a New Jersey power plant to New York City, a Connecticut Superior Court judge blocked the latest attempt by Canada's TransEnergie to put into service its dormant 330-megawatt (MW) underwater cable between Connecticut and Long Island.
The ruling is only the latest in a succession of court battles. In January 2002, the Connecticut Siting Council granted TransEnergie a certificate to build the Cross Sound Cable.
A challenge by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was denied in April 2002. TransEnergie laid the 24-mile (38-km) cable but failed to bury about 700 feet of the link to the required 48-foot depth below the water surface in parts of New Haven harbor due to underwater obstructions.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in December 2002 it had no objections to TransEnergie operating the cable while the company trenched it to the required depth.
But the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection refused to modify TransEnergie's ...