2020-07-08@5:40pm–#Bridgeport CT– An employee was allegedly hit by a tractor-trailer at the waste facility at 750 South Avenue.
Month: July 2020
Norwalk News: Car Into Variety Store
UPDATE: No serious damage to the building and the odor was coming from the car.
2020-07-08@4:00pm–#Norwalk CT– A car has crashed into Deflorio’s Variety at 115 Ely Avenue. There is now a report of an odor of natural gas in the building.
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Bridgeport News: 2 Arrested After Man Shot In The Buttocks
2020-07-08@12:04pm–#Bridgeport CT– Two are arrested after a man was shot in the buttocks at 180 Yaremich Drive according to initial reports.
Employee Head Strikes
2020-07-08
@11:44am– #Fairfield CT–A server at the Patterson Club at 1118 Cross Highway passed out, striking her head on a table.
@12:17pm– #Ansonia CT– An employee at Target on West Main Street is unconscious after striking her head.
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Paycheck Protection Program
Bridgeport, CT – The Small Business Administration announced 16,495 small businesses in Connecticut’s Fourth Congressional District received between $1.3-2.4 billion* in loan assistance through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), supporting 140,916 jobs. Nationwide, the program made more than five million loans totaling approximately $520 billion and supported more than 51 million jobs, representing 84% of small business employment.
“Congress acted quickly to authorize and implement the PPP program at the beginning of this pandemic,” said Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04). “The swift action stanched the bleeding and allowed Connecticut workers to keep lights on and food on the table. We made adjustments after the initial release of funds to get more money in the hands of minority-owned businesses and businesses without strong banking connections. For many families, this aid has been a lifeline helping them weather this storm.
“The need for help is not over. We are not out of the woods here in Connecticut, which is now faring better than much of the rest of the nation after bearing the brunt of the early pandemic. We cannot now abandon the millions of families whose lives continue to be upended by the coronavirus. Congress must be willing to act again if necessary and not end vital assistance prematurely simply because we’re fatigued.”
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Deport Students Whose University Moves Classes Online?
Hartford, CT – Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on ICE’s proposed rule change that would force international students to leave the country if their universities move classes online.
“This is yet another cruel, unnecessary and harmful policy decision from the Trump administration,” Tong said. “I have already heard from Connecticut students who are in danger of being kicked out of the country because of this rule change. The University of Connecticut, our flagship state school, hosts around 3,700 international students from dozens of countries. That’s roughly 13 percent of the student body. These students often become immigrants who allow our nation’s economy to grow and thrive. That’s particularly the case in Connecticut, where thousands of immigrants have come to study at our world-class universities and stayed to work in advanced manufacturing and other high skill jobs.
“In the current health crisis, universities need to be able to make prudent choices about the health and safety of their students, faculty and staff without fear of draconian and punitive immigration consequences. My office is dedicated to protecting Connecticut and her residents, including our immigrant neighbors, and we stand ready to lead our sister states in doing so yet again.”
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Bridgeport News: Stabbing Was Minor Puncture Wound
2020-07-07@ 8:22pm–#Bridgeport CT– Other media outlets are posting a stabbing that occurred in the 500 block of Hallet Street due to a Bridgeport Police tweet that said “Preliminary report of an assault w/ a dangerous weapon 500th block of Hallett St. Possible party stabbed. BPD on-scene along with AMR. NFI”. NFI is No Further Information.
I went to the scene and a man had a minor puncture wound to his back that didn’t require any medical treatment. I wasn’t even going to post it until I saw the other reports.
Bridgeport Police Need Your Help
#Bridgeport CT– Detectives are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the person depicted in the below image, in connection with a robbery that occurred on the east side of Bridgeport on June 21, 2020. Anyone who can identify this male is asked to call Detective Cintron at 203-581-5227.
Trumbull News: Amazon Facility To Bring Changing Traffic Conditions
#Trumbull CT– As Amazon is nearing completion of its multi-million dollar warehouse and distribution facility in Trumbull, CT and motorists are being warned to be aware of the changing traffic conditions that will bring increased volume on Main Street (Route 25) near the Monroe town line.
Although an official opening date has not yet been announced, residents and motorists traveling in the area of Main Street and Spring Hill Road will notice more activity as the extensive $11 million renovation work at 7120 Main Street is in its final stages. The police department will be posting officers in this area to monitor changes in traffic volume and ensure that all driveways and intersections remain clear and that traffic control signals work effectively to allow motorists to pass through this area with minimal delay. This will be a significant change in conditions at this intersection, where this building has been vacant for almost ten (10) years, with no traffic or activity on the site.
The new facility will bring a number of delivery vehicles, as well as employees traveling to and from the property, using both the Main Street driveways and the Spring Hill Road intersection at various hours throughout the day. It is expected that the Amazon facility will open and begin operating later this month.
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Tong On Tranny Accounts
Hartford, CT – Attorney General William Tong this week led a coalition of attorneys general, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Office of Consumer Counsel, and the Maine Ratepayer Advocate urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject unnecessary and unjust incentive payments to transmission developers.
FERC issued a draft rulemaking in March proposing a series of generous new transmission incentives, including extra payments for basic measures that transmission developers are already doing, such as joining mandatory regional transmission organizations. With a federally regulated transmission system already weighted toward traditional, carbon-intensive and outdated energy transmission methods, the coalition argues that any new incentives must be targeted to encourage the development of modern, zero-carbon renewable resources.
The coalition agreed with FERC Commissioner Richard Glick, who stated in his dissent: “Incentives must actually incentivize something. A payment that does not incentivize anything is a handout, not an incentive. Handing out customers’ money to transmission owners without a strong belief that that money will induce beneficial conduct is unjust and unreasonable and inconsistent with the Congress.”
“Connecticut consumers already pay far too much for their energy. The last thing we need is to send more ratepayer dollars to transmission developers for lucrative work they were already planning to do. If we are going to consider any form of incentive, it should be to encourage the necessary transition away from fossil fuels, and towards carbon-zero renewables,” said Attorney General Tong.
“The Department strongly urges the Commission not to provide unjust and unnecessary incentives to transmission companies for projects they would build anyway,” DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes said. “The Department strongly supports this effort to ensure that FERC requires grid planners and operators to evaluate transmission projects based on metrics that protect ratepayers and accommodate state public policies.”
“Under FERC’s proposed rulemaking, Connecticut ratepayer dollars would be given away to transmission developers with no customer benefit in return,” said Acting Consumer Counsel Richard E. Sobolewski. “Ratepayer funds should be prudently spent on improving the safety and reliability of the transmission system—not further enriching developers that stood to profit regardless. Connecticut ratepayers already face high electric rates—they rightfully expect to receive tangible outcomes from rates paid rather than watching those rates climb higher for no demonstrable purpose.”
Transmission costs have increased substantially over the last decade. Nationwide, investments in electric transmission facilities grew from approximately $2 billion per year during the late 1990s to approximately $20 billion per year during the five years ending in 2019.
In New England, these transmission costs account for almost 20 percent of ratepayer bills. Approximately $1.3 billion in transmission upgrades are planned for New England over the next several years. The base rate of return on equity for transmission developers on those projects is currently over 10 percent—a lucrative business hardly in need of additional incentives.
The letter was led by Attorney General Tong and signed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Office of Consumer Counsel, the Maine Ratepayer Advocate, and the attorneys general of Massachusetts, California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan and Rhode Island.
Separately, the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority also filed timely comments opposing the proposed transmission ROE incentives regime as a needlessly expensive solution in search of a problem.
Assistant attorneys general Robert Snook and Matt Levine, Head of the Environment Department, assisted the Attorney General in this matter.
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