@KathyHochul has very carefully appointed climate extremists to the Adirondack Park Agency board to push through environmentally catastrophic projects that wouldโve never been allowed in the Adirondack Park before the Climate Act.
This is intentional.
They are giving our best farmland and water sources to foreign corporations under the guise of โgreen energyโ in Upstate NY.
What happened to โForever Wild?โ
The land will never be farmed again.
Silver, cadmium, sometimes lead, microplastics, and zinc leach off the panels onto the soil below them.
One hail storm, blizzard, or tornado and glass shards will coat the earth below the panels.
Thatโs why potato growing associations nationwide wonโt grow potatoes on former solar complexes.
Theyโre taking our best farmland for renewable energy credits and deals with foreign corporations.
@H0neyW4sp@WhiteHouse I really haven't watched late night TV in years.
Our government shouldn't infringe on the First Amendment.
Trump is wrong strong-arming CBS to cancel Colbert.
But I exercised my freedom of choice by not watching Colbert AND not watching Trump.
We donโt want your renewable detention center in our rural Upstate New York towns.
Save American farmland.
Save American prairie.
We donโt want foreign solar corporations destroying the land that sustains us.
You never had a chance to vote "no" on New York's Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES). Your state representative probably didn't either.
Do you know why?
ORES was snuck into a budget bill in 2020, while the world sheltered in place at home during a global pandemic.
The FY2021 New York State budget (passed April 2, 2020) included the law that established Office of Renewable Energy Siting. It was enacted through Article 23 of the Public Authorities Law.
Conveniently, ORES, a major restructuring of how energy projects are approved, was created within a compressed budget timeline, not through a slower committee-driven legislative process where the public would have been made aware of its forthcoming vote.
By April 2, 2020, a shadow agency had been created with the power to supersede our state's NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and operate independently of every other agency, as was on display with Alle-Catt Wind last week when ORES approved construction AGAINST recommendations by this state's own Department of Health.
They knew we wouldn't like what ORES would do to our towns, so they removed the vote. They knew we wouldn't like what these complexes do to our wildlife, so they removed SEQRA and the DEC from ORES negotiations. They knew we wouldn't like losing our home rule, so they structured ORES in a way that makes it very difficult to sue head-on.
They quietly snuck ORES through a budget bill that was passed during one of the most upsetting and distracted times in US history. Ironically, at that same time, our governor, Andrew Cuomo, was behind the deaths of over 15,000 long-term care residents from COVID that he attempted to cover-up.
One year later, he resigned in disgrace.
Cuomo may have been gone from 2021 onward, but ORES remained. Since then, ORES has expanded its unlawful use of redactions with each subsequent wind and solar complex, setting new precedents monthly in which the office goes against the wishes of New York residents, town supervisors, county executives, New York agencies, and environmental nonprofits.
ORES is an unchecked runaway train that was purposely created to force renewable detention complexes onto our rural towns and villages.
They didn't expect any of us to notice. They didn't expect anyone to uncover the truth, or to have the courage to speak out against the New York State system.
They underestimated how New Yorkers feel about our rural communities. We're not as dumb as they think we are.
But now the cleanup begins. We are speaking with law firms about the best way to go into the belly of the beast and dissolve ORES, an office that should have never been created, from within.
ANY politician that voted for the creation of ORES should be swiftly voted out of office come this November. I will be posting names and voting histories on here.
And the one-party rule that has held Albany hostage for decades has led to a catastrophic imbalance of power that set the stage for something like ORES to be created. Our state governments function best with checks and balances.
Our Founding Fathers knew that.
@altitudinarians Dude,
Every rooftop, landfill, the center median of state highways...
No. Just buy out a struggling farmer, who can't afford to pay for labor, and give it the go ahead.
More from Ticonderoga, New York, which sits inside of the Adirondack Park.
You, as a private citizen, are not allowed to do anything to the land in the ADK Park. Youโll be fined if you do.
But foreign solar developers? Theyโre free to strip topsoil, grade, bulldoze, apply herbicides, fence off habitat, and drive Chinese-made panels into the earth.