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LIPA (all long islanders) are being overcharged by $60 million in property taxes by Northport and the town of huntington....Which is why our electric bills are so high. I'm sick of getting ripped off on my lipa bill to subsidize these two towns. Whatever happened with the lawsuit by national grid to lower our rates through tax grievance????
Long islanders can no longer afford to subsidize Northport homeowners tax bills. Please charge Lipa fair taxes. Northport-Huntington have been ripping us off for years now......enough is enough.
The only way I can see this improving is via home rule for Long Island (ie: a country within the nation of the United States), or with statehood. At least then the tax money would stay on Long Island. Long Island tax revenues should be for the benefit of Long Island, not the Bronx or Rochester.
Actually it's NOT LIPA that is ripping off Long Islanders. It's the local towns and villages that have been assessing higher property taxes on these facilities for decades that are taking all of us to the cleaners. What was LILCO then Keyspan and now LIPA/National Grid have been viewed as a cash cow for property taxes for a very long time.
Shoreham/Wading River is a good example along with Northport, Huntington, Island Park, Glen Cove, etc..
The folks in North port and Huntington have to put up with the 4 big stacks and the population so they get a small reduction in their taxes.
I'm thinking that most of the pollution (I assume that's what you meant when you typed population) is downwind from the plants, not in Northport, more likely in the town of Smithtown. And it's not a small reduction, it's pretty huge.
Small reduction? It's $63 million or $3300 per Northport resident and ten percent for huntington residents that's built into our high rates.
Give me $3300 a year Lipa, you're welcomed to build 40 stacks in my town.
No thanks,
Smokestacks are a major source of toxic pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other sooty ozone particles, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. These pollutants can have devastating effects on the human body, and increase the incidence of respiratory problems and premature deaths.
The majority of the sludge from smokestacks is deposited in on-site landfills, which can lead to contamination of local water supplies. Toxins such as mercury, arsenic, chromium and cadmium are commonly found in sludge, and can have devastating effects on the human nervous system.
Smokestacks are a major source of toxic pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other sooty ozone particles, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. These pollutants can have devastating effects on the human body, and increase the incidence of respiratory problems and premature deaths.
The majority of the sludge from smokestacks is deposited in on-site landfills, which can lead to contamination of local water supplies. Toxins such as mercury, arsenic, chromium and cadmium are commonly found in sludge, and can have devastating effects on the human nervous system.
I think they bury the sludge next door to you in Virginia.
Anyway, I've always made the argument, based purely on my own conjecture, that we have high rates of cancer on LI because of air pollution more so than anything. We are downwind from all the junk in NJ and all the emissions from NYC...it all blows right over us.
I did a paper on nuclear war in college and I remember seeing the fallout plume from a 4 megaton nuke over NYC.
We're basically a bulls eye for the fallout plume from NYC. If there was a nuclear explosion in NYC we'd be getting dangerous fall out way out on LI, while NJ would be relatively safe.
I think they bury the sludge next door to you in Virginia.
D you might be right I have grown two extra toes since I've been here. It's hard to hide in the summertime.
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I have grown two extra toes since I've been here. It's hard to hide in the summertime. 
