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.
Video submitted by: @JenniferSitter2
What @GovKathyHochul has done (and is trying to do) to Upstate NY farmers will not be allowed to move forward without a knock down, drag out fight. Things are in motion to put up a serious defense for our neighbors to the North. Thanks to @alex_fasulo for making me aware!
BREAKING: The US Department of Transportation confirms to @FoxNews that they have issued a subpoena to the state of NY after they allege the state has refused to cooperate with their investigation into Jing Shen Dong, the bus driver who allegedly caused a crash that killed five people in Stafford County, VA on Friday morning. DOT says Dong is a naturalized US citizen who was born in China, doesn't speak English, and received his commercial driver's license (CDL) from the state of New York.
DOT says the subpoena is a result of not being able to "obtain the requested documents through other reasonable means."
DOT is demanding that New York turn over records on Dong's CDL, his entry level driving training, and the driving school he attended. DOT says those documents must be turned over by Wednesday at 10AM ET, or face consequences/penalties.
A reminder for @RepJeffries:
1) DHS doesn’t make the laws, Congress does. We don’t pick and choose which laws to enforce—and neither should you as a “lawmaker.”
2) It is a crime to enter the United States illegally. EVERYONE being held inside Delaney Hall broke the law.
U.S. Code, Title 8, Section 1325.
This is a detention center — we do not provide luxury accommodations. What we do provide are basic necessities like beds, clean water, comprehensive healthcare, and 3 meals a day until they go HOME.
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You’re looking at thousands of studs that have been jammed into the ground, on what was previously prime farmland, as they continue to build out Cider Solar in Elba and Oakfield, New York.
The studs will hold the Chinese-made solar panels that were constructed and shipped with fossil fuels and rare earth minerals.
Cider Solar is a massive 500MW industrial complex that will destroy 4,000 acres by the time they’re done.
Since commercial solar only generates at 15% of its annual potential in Upstate NY (actually closer to 10% in Western NY), this 500MW complex will only generate 75MW of power when it’s all said and done.
Thousands of acres gone. Soil compacted. Runoff reported. Chemicals sprayed to suppress vegetation. Animals displaced in every direction. And the history and culture of these towns destroyed forever.
All for our governor, greedy politicians, and subsidies for foreign corporations.
Video submitted by @JenniferSitter2
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.
"I'd still rather see thousand-acre solar complexes than fracking!"
A lot of people comment this under my posts. I get why they comment it. They aren't aware of the drilling that's occurring to install commercial-scale solar and wind complexes around New York State.
The irony has to be called out.
New York State pushes back on fracking because of concerns about subsurface unpredictability, lack of confidence in containment underground, and fear of fluid migration into groundwater. As the state says, the "long-term environmental unknowns" aren't worth it.
If this doesn't prove that virtue-signaling is at the center of the energy debate in this state, I don't know what does.
At Horseshoe Solar in Rush and Caledonia, New York, a major renewable corporation performed Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) 7 times under the Genesee River.
"Why is a solar company 400 feet down?"
They were attempting to connect the solar arrays on both sides of the river. They drilled down into karst soils and were warned by dozens of people and experts that this carried significant risk.
Invenergy drilled anyway. You know why? They want their green energy subsidies and credits... and they know ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) isn't going to monitor what they are doing.
As of last month, 3 of the 7 HDD holes were filling with water. This past February, Invenergy punctured their aquifer. ORES gave Invenergy the OK to insert hydrophobic polyurethane foam and chemical grout to plug the aquifer puncture. Multiple homes suffered water quality impacts or loss of water.
Once you puncture a confined water system and inject chemicals to fix it, you are operating in a system where flow paths are invisible and predicted behavior is modeled... not observed.
Wait a minute... doesn't that sound EXACTLY like what New York is trying to avoid with fracking? Bingo! Groundwater to surrounding properties was contaminated.
The material Invenergy is using to plug "these holes" isn’t just cement... it’s a polyurethane-based foam that’s injected as a liquid, travels through the ground, and then expands to seal water pathways. How far does it travel before settling? What pathways does it follow in fractured or karst ground?
The very scenario they told you was worth shutting down the entire natural gas debate is playing out in real-time, as we speak, in Western New York.
New York State is IN on the money grab that's occurring between green energy subsidies and credits and foreign corporations. A very small group of people are getting very rich while they hand over our prime farmland, wetlands, and grasslands to companies that originate far away from New York State.
The result? A mutilated river, aquifer, and bedrock that's also the exact site of a Seneca Nation burial ground.
ORES doesn't care. They answer to no one. And that's exactly how @KathyHochul likes it.
FULLY COVERED: Homeland Security has reportedly instructed federal immigration officers that they are not required to comply with state laws restricting the use of face masks.
🚨 This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks
ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER”
“Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!”
“Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!”
This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them
This guy is a Nut!! The people voted. Massie lost. Now he is questioning elections? The same guy who got Fox News sued for nearly a Billion dollars, spewing unsubstantiated lies.
The people of Kentucky loves Trump. He turned on Trump. The people moved on. The end.
SCOOP: NY school district @PenfieldCSD is hiring and appear to suggest they will give extra consideration to “underrepresented groups.” Hiring on the basis of race or sex is ILLEGAL.
If you’re a straight White man and had your application denied, you may have been discriminated against and have a civil rights case.
The superintendent is Tasha Potter who can be reached at [email protected]
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