Sentence examples similar to power mountain from inspiring English sources

Talk story about a drive up the west bank of the Hudson toward Cornwall, the proposed site of Consolidated Edison's power plant in Storm King Mountain, currently being fought by conservationists before the Federal Power Commission.

Mr. B. founded Friends of the Hudson last April, when he learned that the construction of Consolidated Edison's controversial pumped-storage power station at Storm King Mountain would result in the seizure of some 215 acres of Harvard University's Black Rock Forest, which covers part of the highlands above the river near Cornwall.

Although he is considered a brilliant tactician and a giant in local environmental law, having won precedent-setting decisions blocking Westway and a Con Ed power plant at Storm King Mountain, as well as having a hand in protecting Sterling Forest and tracts of the Hudson River Valley, Mr. Butzel is not exactly a standard-issue tree-hugger.

By James Stevenson The New Yorker, January 7 , 1967P. 17 Talk story about a drive up the west bank of the Hudson toward Cornwall, the proposed site of Consolidated Edison's power plant in Storm King Mountain, currently being fought by conservationists before the Federal Power Commission.

Westchester County has been a seedbed of environmental activism for almost 40 years -- since the day when a group of citizens gathered in a home in Irvington and vowed to fight a proposal to build a power plant on Storm King Mountain in the Hudson Highlands.

Mr. Luce headed Con Ed from 1967 to 1982 and dealt with the oil crisis of the 1970s, customer rage over rising rates, the 1977 blackout that paralyzed New York City and the settlement of a decades-long struggle with environmental groups over construction of a power plant at Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River.

LOUISVILLE GUARD IS TRANSFERRING -- Louisville guard Nate Daniels is transferring to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics power Mountain State after playing only one season with the Cardinals.

Given that all Chris Froome's stage wins in the Tour de France prior to this year had come either in uphill finishes or time trials, there were grounds for claiming that the double Tour de France winner was a cyclist with a relatively limited register based on sheer power on mountain tops and against the watch.

The raising of the Curtain offered a timely reminder of another age in which spectacles of power concealed mountains of debt.

Protesters held placards and banners calling for "no nuclear power", "protect mountains, rivers" and "no new nukes" with signs in English, French and Japanese.

The cylindrical diffusers were calibrated using an integration sphere by comparison with a frontal light diffuser (FD-1, Medlight SA, Ecublens, Switzerland) delivering 150 mW measured with a power-meter (Spectra Physics Power-meter 407A, Mountain View, CA, USA).