Clean-air activists rail against Port of Coeymans expansion

Altamont Enterprise provides a follow-up to Barbara’s questions per an opinion piece published in their newspaper on September 22, 2022

ALBANY COUNTY — With approval from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, the industrial port in Coeymans owned by Carver Laraway, head of Carver Companies, is soon to undergo an expansion project that has left some environmental activists concerned. 

The project is meant to allow the port to support the construction of offshore wind turbines.

Barbara Heinzen, of the Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena-Coeymans, says in a letter to the Enterprise editor this week, that the project will increase the amount of waste burned at the LaFarge Cement plant, in the Coeymans village of Ravena, thereby diminishing the air quality in the region. READ MORE