(:Orange Environment to watch new Stewart growth:)
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Stewart Airport – As the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey gets ready to take over control of Stewart Airport at Newburgh, a key environmental organization in the Mid-Hudson Valley plans to keep a watchful eye on any future plans.
The Port wants to transform Stewart into a reliever airport for the overcrowded New York metropolitan area airports and Orange Environment, Inc. wants to make sure that any growth is carefully studied and includes a lot of public participation, said its president Michael Edelstein.
“This can’t be a situation where the Port Authority comes in and ramrods through a project, because you don’t want a situation where all the positives people have dreamed about are clouded out by negatives that they didn’t anticipate,” he said.
Edelstein said Orange County and the Mid-Hudson Valley cannot lose their quality of life by any future development at Stewart.
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 Edelstein: "clouded out by negatives"
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