In case our prime farmland, grassland habitat, and wetlands weren't enough for foreign solar developers, now NYS politicians want to open up our reservoirs, lakes, and canals to floating solar panels.
Senate/Assembly bill S4571B/A6577B creates a @NYSERDA "floating solar incentive and education program" that would provide access to financing resources for floating solar development.
The bill language is intentionally drafted to be very broad. We've seen this with other bills aimed at expanding solar and wind destruction across New York State, usually introduced by @RachelMayNY or @SenatorHarckham.
The bill includes opening up our lakes to floating solar and does NOT contain Adirondack-specific exclusions. The bill itself also does not establish a size cap for projects.
Most importantly, it places financing assistance through NYSERDA.
Do you know what that means?
It means this floating solar grant program will be funded by us. It will be funded by the delivery charge on your electric bill that Upstate New Yorkers already can't afford right now.
As for the microplastics that are deposited below the solar panels, glass shards after a single hail storm/ice storm/tornado/blizzard, and the heavy metals like cadmium, lead, zinc, and silver that leach off the panels... do you want to drink water from a reservoir that sits below this kind of environmental destruction?
Potato growing associations nationwide will NOT grow potatoes on farmland that sat below the panels. Imagine putting these panels ABOVE your drinking water?
And as always, what about the animals? The aquatic species that ask for nothing but to be left alone by humans determined to play God?
Panels floating over water creates shade below them. This reduces growth of aquatic plants and algae production beneath the Chinese-made panels. This then alters the food web that supports insects, zooplankton, and eventually fish.
In case the microplastics, glass shards, heavy metals, or PFAS don't kill the fish first, the shaded, cooled, and altered food web will kill them next.
Do you get it yet? These climate extremists will destroy our environment long before we're "carbon neutral" if we don't all do something about this.
Here is the state of Genesee County in New York State right now.
This photo is of just a small fraction of solar slated for Genesee County, totaling 2,500 acres in size for this particular complex.
Genesee County is one of the most heavily targeted solar buildout areas in New York State, with 800–1,000+ MW either built, approved, or under construction... and the majority of that is concentrated in just a couple massive projects.
For those wondering... 100MW of solar requires about 800 acres of land (not including access roads, fencing, and transmission lines, which nearly double the project footprint).
Therefore, 1,000MW of solar comes to around 8,000 acres of prime farmland and wildlife habitat gone for intermittent energy that converts, on an annual average, at 15-18% of its potential in our cloudy Upstate NY climate.
That's around 8,000 football fields of land, fenced off with chainlink fencing, with topsoil stripped, and buried equipment that is allowed to be abandoned below 3 feet when the company decides to file bankruptcy and find a new town to pillage.
When you have that much acreage set aside for solar industrial complexes, you must start looking at the cumulative impact to the entire county, starting with the wildlife displacement and ending with the very industries, like agriculture, that support the towns around the county.
And no one ever mentions the viewshed destruction. Do you know what it does to a town's charm, its history, its ability to attract tourism when you do this to a rural view? What it does to surrounding property values? What it does to people's spirits?
It crushes everyone and everything... and no, your electric bills haven't gone down. They've doubled instead. You know why? These ecological detention centers need hefty subsidies and credits to even be mildly feasible. They cannot stand in an open market because the power generated is just that intermittent and ineffective.
The delivery charge on your electric bill is being used to socialize the failed rollout of commercial solar and wind.
This is the biggest scam ever peddled on the American public.
Photo taken by @JenniferSitter2
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@elonmusk on voter ID and fraud:
“CA just passed a law making it illegal to require voter ID in any election.”
“They’re not even allowed to look at your ID.”
“They’re proud of it— they’re not hiding it.”
“It’s so fraud can never be proven. It enables large-scale fraud, and no way to prove it. How would you? It’s literally impossible— no ID. You’re not even allowed to show ID.”
“They come up with some nice sounding this. Their rebuttal is, it’s racist to require ID. I think it’s racist and patronizing to say people can’t figure out how to get an ID.”
“You need ID for everything. Except voting. It’s total bullshit, obviously.”
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🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST NOW: "Today is Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Birthday. She is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and has done a fantastic job — Respected by everyone, even the Radical Left Lunatics. Thank you Jeanine, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
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🚨 WOW! It's just been revealed that fraudsters' assets have been SEIZED by law enforcement, this CBS reporter noticed that the warehouse is filled with MERCEDES and luxury vehicles
Exact thing Nick Shirley found!
A fraudster pleaded GUILTY to submitting over $270 MILLION in the state's Medicaid program, and was paid $170M
FA US ATTORNEY ESSAYLI: "What's most egregious about this is it was basically no questions asked. He basically exploited a loophole in the state's processing system."
CBS: "That loophole court records show meant healthcare providers got reimbursed for prescription drugs that were not medically necessary and often not even given to patients."
Allowing fraud is a betrayal of all American citizens.
On average, 139,000 trees are being felled for each ORES solar/wind complex.
ORES has issued 36 final permits to date.
Millions of trees and mature Upstate NY forest is being mutilated for the “green” energy grift.
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“What we’ve found, since President Trump took office, is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to migrants that are in our country.”
—@StephenM
@EricLDaugh Why specifically make a bill for the privacy of “immigrant support services” why not all “support services”?
It’s because they use immigrant communities to commit fraud.
🚨 NOW: Nick Shirley EXPOSES that the California Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta is the one pushing the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" through the legislature
Imagine that 🤯
Q: They're going after YOU. Aren't they supposed to be going after FRAUD?
SHIRLEY: "They need these communities for VOTES, or they need them to continue pushing their agenda."
"Why not just all support services, why specifically immigration support services [are protected?] It's because they need these groups and they need the money to eventually funnel back into whatever agenda they want to continue to push. That's why they're creating this bill!" @nickshirleyy
Admission of GUILT.
Decline was a choice. Not anymore.
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ORES supersedes ALL local zoning laws, moratoriums, environmental laws, and sentiment from the public & town leaders.
It was created in a way where it destroys our home rule, granted to us as New York residents in our state constitution.
@SenatorHinchey is one of the most vile NYS senators, who pretends she’s an environmental savior while green lighting this kind of agricultural land and forest destruction in the name of solar and wind.
When I spoke to the NYS Senate Energy Committee in January, Ms. Hinchey was conveniently absent that day.
She didn’t want to answer the questions I had for her.
Where are the tree huggers??? The trees are good for OUR environment @johnrich@epaleezeldin@GovKathyHochul STOP CUTTING TREES DOWN FOR THESE HIDEOUS SOLAR PANEL