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Pa., N.J. rift likely to persist into '06
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jan 01, 2006 01:32pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Wilmington (DE) News Journal |
| News Date | Saturday, December 31, 2005 07:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Wilmington News Journal article.
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"New Jersey and Pennsylvania both refused to blink Friday, virtually assuring that 2005 will end without an agreement on deepening the Delaware River shipping channel and without a budget in place for the Delaware River Port Authority.
There is even disagreement on the status of efforts to resolve the stalemate. A spokesman for New Jersey's acting governor, Richard J. Codey, said top officials in Pennsylvania and New Jersey began talking about the issue on Friday. But Kate Philips, spokeswoman for Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, said there were "no substantive lines of communication open."
The dredging to deepen the channel to 45 feet from 40 feet would make it possible to bring bigger oil tankers up the river to Philadelphia-area refineries.
Commissioners of the port authority, the bistate agency that oversees ports in the region and operates four bridges connecting New Jersey and Pennsylvania, agreed in 1999 to move ahead with the $300 million project. But since then, New Jersey has balked, largely over concerns that dumping most of the mud dredged from the 105-mile channel in the Garden State would be bad for the environment." |
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