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Law Practice

Nov. 14, 2012

Small fixes could mitigate superstorm devastation

Is looking only to big projects, at the expense of quickly pursuing a number of smaller projects, prudent? By Paul Kaufman of Chadbourne & Parke LLP


By Paul Kaufman


If ever there was a belief that the Northeast was immune from the havoc that natural disasters wreak on electrical infrastructure and the hardship that outages impose on people and businesses that rely on that infrastructure, that belief was shattered last week. Hurricane Sandy's waters flooded underground utility vaults, shut down generating plants and emergency generators and caused substations to flash in Manhattan. Sandy's winds shatte...

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