ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Catskills Hydropower Project Drops Bid For FERC Permit Law360 (April 12, 2021, 7:06 PM EDT) -- The developer of a potential upstate New York hydroelectric project withdrew its permit request from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission due to "the social impact the proposed project reservoirs would cause," according to a letter from the company. The withdrawal came amid hundreds of comments pouring into FERC's docket urging the commission to nip in the bud Premium Energy Holdings LLC's application for a preliminary permit for its Ashokan Pumped Storage Project in the Catskills. Opponents argued the project would compromise a major New York City drinking water source and that local governments' opposition would have doomed the project anyway....