By Tim Rowland Driving toward the Adirondacks from Plattsburgh on Interstate 87, Trembleau Mountain appears to the east as a giant batwing with multiple distinct nodes connected with taut ridgelines rising from the flat farmland to the north As … [Read more...] about Trembleau: A Lake Champlain bushwhack
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Film takes a new, close look at Lake Champlain
Screening at the VIC, documentary portrays journey of discovery By Mike Lynch Last summer, Jordan Rowell spent two weeks exploring Lake Champlain and its watershed. In the process, he experienced some of the best and worst the landscape has to … [Read more...] about Film takes a new, close look at Lake Champlain
Quebec’s battery
Hydro-Quebec's power generation, Indigenous culture wired into tangled past By Zachary Matson The scale of Hydro-Quebec’s portfolio of dams and reservoirs is staggering. The projects have remade the social and natural landscape of northern … [Read more...] about Quebec’s battery
Power through the park
$4 billion transmission line to drop into Lake Champlain By Zachary Matson The large boats will prowl Lake Champlain all day and all night for five months. Barges up to 300 feet long and 90 feet across will carry 12 miles of spooled … [Read more...] about Power through the park
Ferry company scraps historic boat
Double-decker boat was used on scenic Port Kent crossing, which remains closed for now By Tim Rowland The venerable double-deck Lake Champlain ferry Adirondack was cut up for scrap last week, ending 109 years of nautical history and a more … [Read more...] about Ferry company scraps historic boat
State approves multi-billion dollar deal to support Lake Champlain power line
Transmission line project will deliver Canadian hydropower to NYC By Zachary Matson Approval of a key state contract Thursday means that construction could start this summer on a transmission line at the bottom of Lake Champlain and the … [Read more...] about State approves multi-billion dollar deal to support Lake Champlain power line