Ed Leighton

over 1 year ago

@AlightSolutions keeps canceling my COBRA and retiree benefits from @GEAerospacePA happening 3 times over past 6 weeks, do not use Alight, they are incompetent

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about 15 hours ago

@TrackYourHeart Liberalism

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Chrissy Casilio

@ChrissyCasilio

3 days ago

I HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR NEW YORK STATE! Hopefully someone in Albany sees this before they go home for the next six months…. Get mini floating water solar panels…and put them in our potholes! Win-win!

ChrissyCasilio's tweet photo. I HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR NEW YORK STATE!

Hopefully someone in Albany sees this before they go home for the next six months….

Get mini floating water solar panels…and put them in our potholes!

Win-win! https://t.co/dMeP7CEQ24

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Making the most out of my 80, or so, trips around the sun. High 5’s 🖐 if I pass you by.

5 days ago · Ticonderoga

What did “Forever Wild” used to mean in the context of the Adirondack Park? “State agencies are legally barred from heavy commercial development. Even recreational infrastructure, like extensive snowmobile trails or bobsled tracks, has faced successful lawsuits if it requires clearing too many trees or altering the wild character of the land.” That’s right… there have been lawsuits against the establishment of snowmobile trails inside the ADK Park. That’s how heavily policed this state park was in the past. But Chinese-made, PFAS-coated solar panels, access roads, herbicides, perimeter fencing, and diesel generators? That’s suddenly OK! It’s OK because the New York State Adirondack Park Agency board has been carefully and purposely stacked with climate extremists that have to follow orders barked at them from @KathyHochul. And the @NYSDEC is no longer functioning under Commissioner Amanda Lefton, whose background includes wind turbine contract securement for the federal government. All of this was carefully planned out and executed. If these people aren’t stopped, they’ll make sure every town inside the ADK Park looks like this.

alex_fasulo's tweet photo. What did “Forever Wild” used to mean in the context of the Adirondack Park?

“State agencies are legally barred from heavy commercial development. Even recreational infrastructure, like extensive snowmobile trails or bobsled tracks, has faced successful lawsuits if it requires clearing too many trees or altering the wild character of the land.”

That’s right… there have been lawsuits against the establishment of snowmobile trails inside the ADK Park. That’s how heavily policed this state park was in the past.

But Chinese-made, PFAS-coated solar panels, access roads, herbicides, perimeter fencing, and diesel generators? That’s suddenly OK!

It’s OK because the New York State Adirondack Park Agency board has been carefully and purposely stacked with climate extremists that have to follow orders barked at them from @KathyHochul.

And the @NYSDEC is no longer functioning under Commissioner Amanda Lefton, whose background includes wind turbine contract securement for the federal government.

All of this was carefully planned out and executed. If these people aren’t stopped, they’ll make sure every town inside the ADK Park looks like this.

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Mike Berger

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5 days ago

@Conner4NY The City of Albany got $20MM to bail them out of a deficit

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7 days ago · Saratoga Springs

Here’s just a fraction of the signage plastered around the Washington County Grasslands, where ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) wants to allow a foreign solar developer to build a 100MW complex. This signage used to mean something. I’ve talked with countless landowners near the grasslands who’ve shared stores with me. They’ve seen the @NYSDEC catch and tag snowy owls and short-eared owls. They’ve watched the DEC do winter raptor counts. I saw the DEC at this grassland every week all winter doing raptor counts. The DEC has created statewide guides that list this grassland as ecologically critical and sensitive. The DEC knows you can’t fragment grassland habitat. The species require contiguous acreage. The DEC wrote the book on it, and even identified the state-endangered and threatened species that live here. It all used to mean something. You’d be fined for going against this signage. In fact, your tax dollars paid for this signage. I’m OK with paying for signs that keep imperiled habitats safe. It all used to mean something until the 2019 Climate Act. Now every New York agency has been compromised so obviously and aggressively that it’s made me lose faith in everything I once thought about these environmental groups. The Fort Edward Grasslands is one of the last grasslands of its kind throughout the entire Northeast. New York State knows that. DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton knows that. But she also knows taking orders from @KathyHochul and the green energy scam supersedes protecting the critical habitat that functions as one of the best carbon stores on planet earth. We cannot allow this.

$alex_fasulo's tweet photo. Here’s just a fraction of the signage plastered around the Washington County Grasslands, where ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) wants to allow a foreign solar developer to build a 100MW complex. This signage used to mean something. I’ve talked with countless landowners near the grasslands who’ve shared stores with me. They’ve seen the @NYSDEC catch and tag snowy owls and short-eared owls. They’ve watched the DEC do winter raptor counts. I saw the DEC at this grassland every week all winter doing raptor counts. The DEC has created statewide guides that list this grassland as ecologically critical and sensitive. The DEC knows you can’t fragment grassland habitat. The species require contiguous acreage. The DEC wrote the book on it, and even identified the state-endangered and threatened species that live here. It all used to mean something. You’d be fined for going against this signage. In fact, your tax dollars paid for this signage. I’m OK with paying for signs that keep imperiled habitats safe. It all used to mean something until the 2019 Climate Act. Now every New York agency has been compromised so obviously and aggressively that it’s made me lose faith in everything I once thought about these environmental groups. The Fort Edward Grasslands is one of the last grasslands of its kind throughout the entire Northeast. New York State knows that. DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton knows that. But she also knows taking orders from @KathyHochul and the green energy scam supersedes protecting the critical habitat that functions as one of the best carbon stores on planet earth. We cannot allow this.$

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7 days ago

It's time to face the reality of how many trees are being felled for commercial solar complexes in New York State. We're going to look at Moraine Solar in Allegany County, which began its tree felling/land clearing operations on February 23, 2026. I am attaching the facility map below. Approximately 154 acres of forest needs to be felled to install this 94MW solar complex. In a light forest, there are roughly 140 trees per 100 x 100 foot space. In a heavy forest, there are roughly 200 trees per 100 x 100 foot space (a forester submitted this data to me). That comes to 609 trees/acre in a light forest, and 870 trees/acre in a heavy forest. That means, for Moraine Solar alone, between 93,786 and 133,980 trees are being cleared, as we speak. Forests, the living, breathing air filters built into our planet that fix the climate and clean our air, are being destroyed for a form of power generation that converts at only 15% of its annual potential. @KathyHochul will try to tell you, through her "25 Million Trees by 2033 Initiative," they have planted 100,000 trees in New York's Southern Tier (which includes 8 counties) to date. A little digging will show you they've only planted 1,300 trees in Allegany County. 1,300 trees planted for at LEAST 93,786 trees LOST for just ONE Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) solar complex. Can you imagine the scale of trees lost statewide for commercial solar and wind projects? Where are the environmentalists? Where are the tree huggers? Where are the people who claim to love forests? Commercial solar and wind is destroying grassland and forest habitat at a pace we've never witnessed in New York State.

alex_fasulo's tweet photo. It's time to face the reality of how many trees are being felled for commercial solar complexes in New York State.

We're going to look at Moraine Solar in Allegany County, which began its tree felling/land clearing operations on February 23, 2026.

I am attaching the facility map below. Approximately 154 acres of forest needs to be felled to install this 94MW solar complex.

In a light forest, there are roughly 140 trees per 100 x 100 foot space. In a heavy forest, there are roughly 200 trees per 100 x 100 foot space (a forester submitted this data to me). That comes to 609 trees/acre in a light forest, and 870 trees/acre in a heavy forest.

That means, for Moraine Solar alone, between 93,786 and 133,980 trees are being cleared, as we speak. Forests, the living, breathing air filters built into our planet that fix the climate and clean our air, are being destroyed for a form of power generation that converts at only 15% of its annual potential.

@KathyHochul will try to tell you, through her "25 Million Trees by 2033 Initiative," they have planted 100,000 trees in New York's Southern Tier (which includes 8 counties) to date.

A little digging will show you they've only planted 1,300 trees in Allegany County. 1,300 trees planted for at LEAST 93,786 trees LOST for just ONE Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) solar complex.

Can you imagine the scale of trees lost statewide for commercial solar and wind projects?

Where are the environmentalists? Where are the tree huggers? Where are the people who claim to love forests?

Commercial solar and wind is destroying grassland and forest habitat at a pace we've never witnessed in New York State.

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MagaMalinois🙋🏻‍♀️🇺🇸🏒

@MagaMalinois

7 days ago

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oldhouselover @oldhouselover1

27 days ago

This is now a superfund site. Forever chemicals (PFAS), lead, cadmium, zinc, microplastics, and glass shards have destroyed the soil below them for centuries. The solar installer will have filed bankruptcy or sold the LLC multiple times by now. They’re no longer on the hook for cleaning up this mess, nor do they plan to spend the millions. Who’s stuck remediating the superfund site? The landowners who sold out in the first place. It’s baked right into their contracts. You won’t hear that from them, though. They signed gag orders when they took their foreign renewable money. And when the landowners can’t even afford it… it falls on the town. It falls on the local taxpayers.

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EdLeighton7 retweeted

8 days ago

This physically turns my stomach. These people are systematically (& methodically) destroying green space, & with breakneck speed. They are selling our kids up the river for a quick buck. I don’t know how a single soul supports this kind of decimation. #ProtectOurFarms

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EdLeighton7 retweeted

8 days ago

New York State has to get all that money to court foreign wind and solar developers from somewhere! They get that money from you. They get it from your taxes, and they get it from the delivery charges on your electric bills. Since solar generates such an intermittent and pathetic amount of energy in a commercial arrangement in our state, they need millions of dollars in subsidies and credits to insulate the foreign solar developers. Commercial solar cannot stand on its own in an open market. In order to avoid discussing how commercial solar has failed in our state, they’d rather ramp up the money they’re making off you.

alex_fasulo's tweet photo. New York State has to get all that money to court foreign wind and solar developers from somewhere!

They get that money from you. They get it from your taxes, and they get it from the delivery charges on your electric bills.

Since solar generates such an intermittent and pathetic amount of energy in a commercial arrangement in our state, they need millions of dollars in subsidies and credits to insulate the foreign solar developers.

Commercial solar cannot stand on its own in an open market.

In order to avoid discussing how commercial solar has failed in our state, they’d rather ramp up the money they’re making off you.

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Thomas Kellogg 🇺🇸

@ThomasKelloggNY

9 days ago · United States

NY Dems banned fracking over “groundwater risks”… but approved horizontal drilling for Horseshoe Solar that just punctured an aquifer under the Genesee River. Drilled 7 times. Hit water 400ft down — 50-100 gpm flooding out. Wells impacted. Prime farmland gone. Burial grounds disturbed. All for subsidies and Chinese panels. Pure CLCPA hypocrisy. Repeal it. All-of-the-above energy now.

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14 days ago

10 New York Towns Where Property Taxes Will Destroy You (2026) https://t.co/VIKkvibDzP via @YouTube

25 days ago

@MagaMalinois This is a NYC law not the rest of NY

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