No Fracked Gas Cayuga

We are a citizen campaign that seeks to stop the gas conversion of the coal-fired Cayuga Power Plant. We demand renewable energy solutions from Governor Cuomo.

[Visualizing Pipeline Impacts @PipelineImpacts]

Danskammer Power Plant - old, decrepit, disused 20th century bemouth trying to reinvent itself as a FRACKED GAS baseline plant. NYS has no business allowing this thing to come back online as part of the state’s 21st century energy portfolio.

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

It’s over. The last lump of coal was burned today in the Cayuga Power Plant. RIP and good riddance.

Never again a dirty smoke stack on the shores of our lake.

Party’s over, fossil fuels.

End of an Era: Power plant shutting down after 64 years | 14850 https://t.co/kknhiQ5BQw

[Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1]

SIGNS OF DAMAGE, part 9:
Gas-fired power plants emit large amounts of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and methane, which contribute to smog and climate change.

See footnotes 24-30, 1247-57 in the all-new fracking science Compendium, 6th ed. https://t.co/vmV3jZOZMM

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

Our story so far:

In upstate New York, fossil fuels will turn into solar and data – ThinkProgress https://t.co/fNjihHEnJ9

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

Here’s some good reporting on the state of play following happy announcement earlier this month that Cayuga Power Plant will be repurposed from coal-burning oven to solar-power data center.

Local Legislators Support Power Plant Transformation https://t.co/tyaiWVJdEY

[Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1]

Here’s how never-die activism, led by women, drove a stupid plan to swap coal for gas in a lakeside power plant right off the cliff and opened a space for something new. Proud to be part of it!

Plans in motion to convert Cayuga Power Plant to data center https://t.co/shrwonA1Kg

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

@LisaMEarthMama @WENYTV @MothersOutFront Mothers Out Front! You can dance with us any time!

[Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1]

@LisaMEarthMama @WENYTV @MothersOutFront Thank you @MothersOutFront for relentless activism, including petitions, rallies, tabling at events, packing public comment sessions, calling electeds, writing letters to editors, and the most labor-intensive kind of campaigning—the going door to door and knocking on them kind.❤️

[Lisa Marshall (she/her) @LisaMEarthMama]

Thanks to @WENYTV for this nice segment on the Cayuga Power Plant today. @MothersOutFront leaders talking about the importance of #grassroots activism and how they #UseYourMomVoice to make change happen. #ThisIsTheMoment #AFutureToBelieveIn

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

Once more from the top: Overwhelming citizen opposition has thwarted another coal-to-gas power plant conversion. We blew up the fracking bridge and are headed straight for renewables.

Another world is possible.

Cayuga Power Plant to Become Data Center https://t.co/MjsTlpYggB

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

We will be following this announcement closely and have plenty of questions about the repurposing and plans for remediation at the site . But one thing is clear: when you fight you win.

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

BREAKING: Cayuga Power Plant operator tells Lansing NY town board that the COAL PLANT IS CLOSING and will become a solar-powered data center, not a fracked gas power plant!

Our press statement/link to CPP memo:

https://t.co/iCPOjJUkda

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

Coal to gas conversion is climate frying pan to climate fire—with truck traffic on top.

Lansing NY residents want a leap from coal to solar and are taking their case to town board. Who is now listening!

UPDATE: What to do with the Cayuga Power Plant? https://t.co/5bj0ZLqRmr

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

@ssteingraber1 This is Cayuga Power’s sister plant. They should both be decommissioned. Hey, Lansing school board members, you paying attention?

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

@ssteingraber1 This is Cayuga Power’s sister plant. They should both be decommissioned. Hey, Lansing school board members, you paying attention?

[Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1]

Cash-strapped coal-burning power plant near Buffalo, NY now owes back taxes to local school district and community.

IOU = $227,307

So kids screwed today AND have their future stolen

Somerset power plant falls behind on taxes, mulls data center project https://t.co/zIrUt0SdaT

[Food & Water Watch Maryland @FWWMaryland]

Happy Banniversary, Maryland! It's been two years since we banned fracking in our state. Thanks to everyone who fought with us to make that happen, and has stuck with for the work that continues! Onward! #WontFrackMD

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

.@NYGovCuomo, so can we get out of it?

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

Price of storage batteries fell 35% in last six months. Glad I'm not in the natural gas business
https://t.co/botzyZpiE3

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

“Lansing will be the first city in Michigan to be fueled entirely by renewable energy, marking what Mayor Andy Schor labeled as ‘necessary first steps’ in addressing the impacts of climate change.”

Brava, sister city! May many follow in the path you’ve blazed.

[No Fracked Gas Cayuga @StopCayuga]

Lansing goes green, ditches coal energy!

Lansing, MICHIGAN.

⁦@NYGovCuomo⁩, we look forward to the same headline in Lansing NEW YORK. Decommission the coal-burning Cayuga Power Plant. No fracked gas conversion.

Meanwhile, all hail Lansing MI. https://t.co/yKLWjR3hWG