@gofishh77@1776Diva Longstanding rule. Way back when I was in school this was also enforced, unless you had a note from your parents giving permission.
@njoyzgrl81 I wouldn’t put oatmeal and raisins in my chocolate chip cookies, just like I wouldn’t put chocolate chips in my oatmeal raisin cookies. Respect the cookie 😁🍪
The largest planned commercial solar complex for the Adirondack Park was paused this morning.
It's time to talk about the logistics behind tying these complexes into the Upstate New York grid, and how the developer behind this complex, Boralex, wants to spin the sudden "hold" on Foothills Solar.
Boralex is the same foreign corporation (out of Canada) that wants to build Fort Edward Solar on one of the last grasslands of its kind throughout the Northeast.
Here is the obvious: before a solar project can operate, it has to physically connect into the electric grid (run by New York Independent System Operator (NYISO). That connection requires studies, approvals, and sometimes major upgrades to nearby power lines or substations.
Rural areas, like Mayfield, New York, which enjoy idyllic, untouched, and remote beauty inside the largest park in all of the US, the Adirondack Park, don’t have huge transmission capacity.
When a new solar project wants to connect, engineers check whether the grid can handle that extra power.
The important part to note here: if the grid can't handle the extra power, upgrades are required.
Who has to pay for those upgrades? In this case, the developer does. If the system needs new lines, substation upgrades, or other infrastructure, the cost falls on the project developer. Those costs can suddenly jump into the millions (or tens of millions).
Boralex does not intend to pay for those millions in upgrades. They want New York State to pay for those millions instead. That's why Boralex wants to rebid with @NYSERDA so they can lock the project into a higher Renewable Energy Credit (REC) price.
Boralex and the other foreign developers want NYSERDA, funded by YOUR taxpayer dollars and delivery charges on your electric bills, to pay for these grid updates.
If New York can't provide that kind of financial insulation, the developer isn't interested.
This has always been about money, and never been about modernizing our grid, lowering electric bills, or developing "clean" energy with panels manufactured and shipped halfway around the world using fossil fuels.
Commercial solar generates such a pathetic amount of energy in Upstate NY that without these RECs and subsidies, the industry collapses. It's very precariously run on the back of money taken from the citizens of this state while they circumvent our local zoning laws and home rule.
It must come to an end.
NY Democrats Gave us a Mother's Day Gift - TRYING TO BAN UNVAXXED KIDS FROM ALL SUMMER CAMPS!
TAKE ACTION NOW!
This is as underhanded as it gets — on the Friday before Mother’s Day weekend Albany Democrats snuck in a bill requiring all summer camps to ban all unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children from participation. A dangerous vote in the Senate Health Committee is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12.
We must stop this!
Everyone needs to do the following right now:
First, make 2 phone calls:
Health Committee Chair Senator Gustavo Rivera: 518-455-3395
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins: (518) 455-2715
Tell Rivera to remove bill S.3958a from the agenda on Tuesday May 12 - we want NO VOTE on this terrible bill!
Tell Stewart-Cousins she must not bring this bill to the senate floor!
Last, complete the following action alert now, then call your Senator and tell them VOTE NO ON S3958.a! https://t.co/TpDSQHvPQS
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz and Senator James Skoufis are trying to do more favors for the vaccine industry with S3958a/A3254a, a bill that will require children who attend summer camp to be up-to-date with the required vaccine schedule. This is just another authoritarian bill that undermines parental rights, religious rights, and the authority of physicians to treat patients, for no discernible public health benefit, and further bolsters the Democrats’ position as puppets of the vaccine cartel.
This bill has already passed in the Assembly so we will have to stop it in the State Senate.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
TALKING POINTS:
Is there any need for this bill? Are there demonstrable outbreaks in summer camps?
This bill will close dozens, if not hundreds of summer camps in New York. Once again, the Democrats have no clue how to incentivize business in New York.
This bill would also place a considerable administrative burden on camps.
Only one other state, California, requires all campers to be up-to-date with the school schedule.
This bill just adds to the needless and unjust discrimination against people with religious beliefs that preclude some or all vaccinations since New York became in 2019 one of only 5 states that do not allow religious exemptions in 2019.
Medical exemptions are technically allowed in New York, but they are nearly impossible to get, as shown by New York having the lowest rate of medical exemptions of any state, according to CDC.
TAKE ACTION NOW: https://t.co/TpDSQHvPQS
This is the state of Upstate New York right now. It’s becoming a commercial solar wasteland, all for a form of energy that only converts at 15% of its annual potential in this climate.
This is a money-laundering scheme between NY, @KathyHochul, and foreign renewable corporations cashing in on millions in green energy subsidies and credits.
Those credits? They’re subsidized using YOUR taxpayer dollars and delivery charges on our electric bills.
We need the federal government to intervene in New York State YESTERDAY!
I recorded this video the day after I attended the Fort Edward Solar hearing in the town over from my farm (October 2025).
What I witnessed changed me forever. NYS sent 2 bureaucrats to “mediate” the meeting… except we weren’t allowed to address them or ask questions.
It was all for show.
To this day, the @NYSDEC has been ordered to stand down to make way for mass environmental mutilation in the name of “saving the climate.”
It’s expected these bureaucrats will issue a final permit to Fort Edward Solar this month. We’re preparing to sue. But I’ll accept federal governmental intervention at any time.
We need help here in New York State.
@pumpkinschintel@GuntherEagleman It’s been in the news all afternoon, a local high school had to cancel their senior prom at the OnCenter because they had to shut down the area in the city..
@AZ_GenX_Patriot@GuntherEagleman This is Syracuse, in Central NY. There are shootings/stabbings there Every night. It’s not even Summer yet which means it’s only going to get worse
@KMG77isme@wxbywilliams Not only generic answers from the company, don’t dare question Anything about safety concerns to the Town, they’ll shut you down in a heartbeat.
@KMG77isme@wxbywilliams Town of Clay NY here, we’ve had unexplained power outages here, sometimes 3-4 a week for years. I can only imagine what it’ll be like when/if Micron comes online.