Jolene Cleaver

Journalist. Beekeeper. Upstate NY.
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[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

Look for patterns. They are everywhere.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@pattistanger We in New York State are watching your elections very closely and want to see how it goes. We also have a goofy governor running for reelection that we need to vote out! I hope it ends well for you guys 🤞🍀.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@JamieBonkiewicz As a female journalist, I can absolutely say that we don't need to be treated any different than male reporters. Also, I can confirm that President Trump treats all journalists the same. Thirdly, we're made of tough stuff and our feelings are not hurt over combative interactions.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@katiewr31413491 @JimmyVielkind @Chrislejohnyc We need to get these people voted out. Pay attention to whoever is running for reelection and get your communities to vote for the challenger if there is one. Break the cycle.

[Thomas Kellogg 🇺🇸 @ThomasKelloggNY]

🚨 We can STILL STOP this before it goes through the Assembly.

Senate rushed S4571A yesterday (39-21).
Companion A6577A (sponsored by Barrett) has not been voted on yet — still in committee.

No size limits. Weak protections for lakes, reservoirs, canals & Adirondacks.
Taxpayer grants risking industrial solar farms + toxic panel failures.

CALL TO ACTION:
Call & email TODAY — demand they KILL A6577A.
Also call your State Senator to voice opposition.

Key Contacts:
- Sponsor Didi Barrett (Dist 106):
📞 Albany: [phone] | District: [phone]
✉️ [email protected]

- *Speaker Carl Heastie
📞 [phone]
✉️ [email protected]

- Your Assemblymember & State Senator https://t.co/DUvD2lVRLp & https://t.co/FXAW6sQUc0

RT & tag your reps! Flood the lines & inboxes — protect NY waters. 🇺🇸

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

U.S. Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins will be on @WHAM1180 and @iHeartRadio at 9:05 Eastern this morning talking about federal efforts to stop the spread of solar arrays that are ravaging upstate New York and destroying some of the best farmland in America.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@GovKathyHochul @epaleezeldin Thank you to @SenGriffo for voting NO.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

Here's what passed in the NYS Senate and is heading to the Assembly. This measure, if enacted, would open reservoirs and canals up to floating solar panel arrays.

NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4571A https://t.co/6DhIf6eH1j

Yet another catastrophically bad idea from Albany.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

If it passes in the Assembly, hopefully @GovKathyHochul won't sign it, but we won't hold our breath.

Curious what @epaleezeldin thinks.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@PureCamai Don't worry about "days in a row." Focus more on how many days each month were sober. Over time, those numbers will grow! You can do it!

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@OftenGypshorted @SecRollins Hell, here in upstate NY, they are even going after old growth woodlands, forests and protected grasslands.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@oldhouselover1 @JohnnyWhales3 @noble275s I hear you, but you HAVE to stay. Too many have left in the last 30 years and we need to focus on trying to break the cycle -from the top down- in the elections coming up. Try to focus on your roots here. When did your family come to NY? Mine came upstate in the 1750s. #HomeRoots

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

Just doing a little amateur science here... It's 2:30 p.m. on May 29. This is the south facing sky from central Oneida County, NY.

Where are you in NY and what does your sky look like?

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

Here's a reliable cache of weather data that includes sunshine and wind in select locations in the United States. https://t.co/47tIXcBFCl

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@FaithfulMomOf5 I have kept those numbers in my head these last four years... She didn't win by much. And things are very different now. 💯

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@KathyHochul and #ORES needs to start listening to upstate. Restore our home rule.

@NYSDEC @SecRollins @RepTenney @epaleezeldin @arborday

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

They're going to cut down 150 acres of MATURE forest to install Oxbow Solar in the Town of Fenner in Madison County, New York.

Oxbow Solar is a 140MW ORES facility that was permitted in 2025.

In order to install the panels, developers will need to remove 150 acres of forest. That's around 70,000 to 80,000 mature trees, cut down, removed, and topsoil stripped to install something we're told is going to "save the climate."

The NYISO data out of Madison County shows Oxbow Solar will generate between 5% and 16% of nameplate capacity (7-23 MW monthly), not 140 MW.

Let me state the obvious here: trees and forests are one of the most effective carbon sinks on planet earth. Through photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in trunks and branches, roots, leaves, and forest soils.

Mature northeastern hardwood forests store 100–200+ metric tons of carbon per acre.

Cutting down mature forest releases that stored carbon into the atmosphere, removes the environment's natural air filters, and takes away one of the most effective methods for LOWERING local temperatures. Trees release water vapor through their leaves! This process acts like natural air conditioning, cooling the surrounding air.

This has never, ever been about saving the environment. This has never, ever been about "cooling the climate." And this has never, ever been about improving our Upstate NY grid.

Commercial solar fails at all three.

It's time for ORES to be dissolved before another inch of Upstate NY soil, forest, and grassland is mutilated by multinational renewable corporations.

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@epaleezeldin Heyyy! @epaleezeldin has entered the chat! @alex_fasulo

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

If this was about “saving the climate,” they’d put the panels over every big box store, failing mall, brownfield, parking lot, and parking garage in the world.

It’s never been about the environment.

Commercial solar is a Trojan horse for the largest wealth transfer of our lifetimes.

Generational farmland is transitioning to multinational foreign corporations.

That was always the plan.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

That’s me!

[Jolene Cleaver @JoleneC_Posts]

@katiewr31413491 @GovKathyHochul I can definitely start pulling together fact sheets, voting guides and other materials and package it nice and neat on my blogsite (I am a freelance journalist/beekeeper!) ... What are key races in your neck of the woods?