More than 40 city and state elected officials, including a dozen from Queens’ delegation, have signed a letter urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to deny NRG Energy’s proposal to build a new peaker plant in Astoria.
A small group of Astoria residents and members of the No Astoria Plant Coalition, which is made up of several community groups organizing to stop NRG’s proposal from moving ahead, gathered outside of the existing peaker plant site at 31-01 20 Ave. to announce the letter and to call on Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to reject the plans on Thursday, April 8.
