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[katie wright @katiewr31413491]

💯 % true !! @johnrich ‘s pushback against mass destruction of NY state farmland has been game changing. Rich has drawn natl attn to the crooked state legislatures who have bulldozed 400,000 acres of farmland.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

No one has done more to help get the message out about ORES to the federal government than @johnrich.

I decided to start posting my content to X only one month ago. Within a week, Mr. Rich had seen and read what I posted and initiated a meeting. Having beaten energy company overreach before, it didn’t take him long to grasp what’s happening here in New York State.

Within a week, he engaged the federal government. There is much more to come.

I’m eternally grateful for him being a critical liaison for us here in Upstate NY. He was the final piece we needed to get this information into the right hands.

He is the perfect man for this job.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

We'd all like to know, @BobDuffyROC Thank you.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@News_8 You forgot a few important items: NY pols have prevented the completion of the Constitution pipeline; NY has prohibited tapping natural gas beneath us that could power the state for decades; and, no mention that commercial solar in this area operates at 5% efficiency in winter.

[Marc Molinaro @MarcMolinaro]

In NY, a homeowner building a garage, a farmer expanding a barn, or a small business improving their property can spend years navigating environmental reviews, permits, hearings, and litigation.

But when a politically favored solar developer wants to industrialize thousands of acres, Albany suddenly finds a shortcut.

The Fort Edward Solar project exposes the double standard.

This isn’t an abandoned industrial site. It’s a grassland habitat recognized for its environmental significance and home to vulnerable species.

For most New Yorkers, impacts like these would trigger intense scrutiny and could easily result in denial.

Yet through ORES, state policy starts with a different assumption: the project moves forward, and the impacts are ignored.

Albany tells us farmland must be preserved. Habitat must be protected. Local voices must be heard.

But when those priorities collide with state energy mandates, the rules change.

That’s what frustrates so many New Yorkers: The sheer hypocrisy.

If these lands are worth protecting, protect them. If environmental standards matter, apply them consistently. And if local communities are expected to live with the consequences, their voices should matter before—not after—the decision is made.

Albany cannot claim to be protecting farmland, habitat, and local control while using ORES to override all three. Local voices matter. ORES should be disbanded.

[Rep. Claudia Tenney @RepTenney]

.@epaleezeldin is right.

NY has natural gas beneath our feet, yet Albany would rather block development than help lower energy costs.

Working families are paying the price for their failed leadership.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Constitution Pipeline would deliver affordable, durable natural gas from Pennsylvania, through New York, and on to millions of New Englanders who desperately need it and have been relying on foreign energy sources and higher prices. Bizarrely, NY Governor Kathy Hochul has been yet again rejecting basic common sense and blocking this vital project. The pipeline is so critical for the region to get built!

[Bruce Blakeman @NassauExec]

Kathy Hochul has turned New York into a place people can't wait to leave.

Families are fleeing to Florida and Texas for lower taxes, lower costs, and a better quality of life, while she keeps making New York more unaffordable.

As Governor, I will make New York a place people move to again, not a place they're desperate to escape.

[Rep. Claudia Tenney @RepTenney]

.@SecScottBessent said it plainly: higher energy prices are largely a red state vs. blue state issue.

Red states are building energy capacity. New York is blocking pipelines, restricting access to affordable energy, & forcing families to pay higher utility bills.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@SenatorBrouk Priorities with you guys:
https://t.co/shEpaFrAjH

[Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz @BlumencranzJake]

🚨STOP SCROLLING. YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS.

Albany just passed a $268 billion budget.

Two hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars.

Florida spends about half that, has no state income tax, and people are moving there instead of leaving.

Meanwhile, Albany Democrats keep pushing the same failed ideas that are making New York less affordable every year.

I’ve spent my time in the Assembly standing up for Long Island.

Now I’m running for the State Senate because New York can’t afford more of the Mamdani agenda.

New York doesn’t have a money problem.

It has an Albany problem.

#Mamdani #Hochul #NYPolitics #LongIsland #NewYork @NassauExec

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@SenatorBrouk You do realize that when a person is jailed for any crime, they are separated from their family, right? Right??? Why do you support breaking federal law? And why do you want to give the same rights and benefits bestowed on New Yorkers to those who are here illegally?

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@UNEP @KHayhoe No one believes you anymore.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

More from inside the Adirondack Park, which is the largest park in the contiguous US.

If you attempted to build something like this in the ADK Park before @KathyHochul and her lapdog DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton was installed, you’d be arrested or fined.

But now in the name of “saving the climate,” it’s OK to destroy land that’s meant to be Forever Wild.

We need to save the environment from the people “trying to save the environment.”

[Bruce Blakeman @NassauExec]

Kathy Hochul is destroying New York's farmland by covering it in solar panels.

This is the same farmland that’s buried in snow half the year.

It’s insanity, and I won’t stand for it.

[Peter Oberacker @PeterforNY19]

First it was our farmland. Now radical Albany politicians just passed a bill (S.4571A) to put those ugly solar panels on our Upstate waterways!

Instead of listening to the concerns of rural communities already dealing with the impacts of large-scale solar development, downstate interests continue to force costly energy mandates here -- without ever bothering to address the legitimate affordability concerns faced by millions of New Yorkers.

Our farms, our land, and our waterways deserve better!

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

You heard the man: a knock down, drag out fight is on the way.

Thank you @johnrich! Upstate New Yorkers are eternally grateful to you.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@SenatorHarckham Are your campaigns funded by solar firms? You are incorrect. Solar/wind are proven to drive UP costs. And now you guys want to put panels on pristine waterways? You do realize that these panels are comprised of toxic elements and could fracture, right? https://t.co/85TqcvE5GY

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

What an awful ending to prime farmland.

Here’s just a fraction of the panels that have been installed in Genesee County, NY. This is part of the ORES project: Cider Solar.

They give these projects mocking agricultural names to try and trick locals into thinking this was good for rural Upstate NY.

Another complex in Montgomery County carries the name “Cow Bell Solar.”

This is one huge money-laundering operation in the form of green energy subsidies and credits. It’s going on between our state and foreign renewable corporations.

Along the way, we’re losing the land that feeds us, forever. Wildlife is displaced in every direction. The soil will never be farmable again. And local pastoral culture and history is destroyed.

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[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

I'd like to vote for Kevin Williams for something.