What a sad ending to prime farmland, animal habitat, and viewsheds at the base of the gorgeous Adirondack Mountains.
The town of Kingsbury tried to do the right thing and fight this, too. But they were no match for the legal power and money behind the multinational corporate conglomerate of AES.
When residents in Kingsbury, New York sounded the alarm and informed the town they had not been made aware of this incoming complex, the town listened to its residents and tried to do the right thing.
Kingsbury's Code Enforcement Officer concluded there were material misrepresentations regarding neighborhood outreach and public awareness during the approval process.
The town attempted to annul the prior approvals.
This is common with all commercial solar salesmen. They lie to American landowners and tell them their "neighbor already said yes, so they should, too." In Kingsbury, it came out that the solar company had done just that, misleading landowners.
Well AES didn't like that very much.
AES responded by suing the Town of Kingsbury, the Planning Board, and the Code Enforcement Officer.
Obviously, the multi-billion dollar renewable company won, and this is the view on Vaughn Road in Kingsbury, New York today.
Who owns AES?
A Google search will show you:
"The buyers in this consortium include U.S.-based Global Infrastructure Partners (a subsidiary of BlackRock), Sweden's EQT, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), and the Qatar Investment Authority."
That's who strong-armed, bullied, and legally flattened a small New York town to force a commercial solar complex into one of the prettiest regions of the state.
This is foreign intervention in the form of swallowing our home rule whole.
How do they not get hit with some hefty EPA fines? As viable as solar may be on certain areas or conditions, the whole system is another big scam that you are I would be fined to oblivion for.
Spotted in Kingsbury, New York, another stack of broken panels, sitting out in the open next to a solar complex.
When panels are broken in this way, lead, silver, cadmium, tin, and zinc leach out of them onto the soil below. They also drop microplastics, glass shards (pictured below), and PFAS (forever chemicals).
Since the complexes are installed with out-of-state, and as we saw in Western New York this week, out-of-country labor, the workers are not concerned with environmental contamination at the worksite.
There is no regulatory body monitoring the installation of these solar complexes in Upstate New York. It's a free-for-all, equipped with green energy subsidies, credits, and foreign corporations.
This is what it gets you. The destruction of our rural way of life in real-time while panels poison prime farmland or animal habitat.
The power doesn't stay local (if it's even tied-in at all). Property values surrounding the complex go down. Taxes go up to make-up for the hundreds of acres taken out of the property tax roll.
This must end.
Iranian man warns that Sharia law starts with unity between the left and Islam.
Pay attention to what he’s saying. The same alliance between the left and Muslims that is taking place now in the West happened decades ago in Iran. That’s how Iran became an Islamic theocracy.
@bAnthonYsr 😂😂😂 no wonder y'all kill each other in such numbers.
Just look how willing you are to justify the murder of your children because they pushed somebody.
@itzRex "Carried" himself line a gentleman... until he didn't. Notice how you used a past tense verb. You know the truth, and your subconscious is actually willing to admit it.
It's a land grab and has nothing to with energy. Solar is just the vehicle the corporations are using to navigate around legalities to swoop up land with tax payer money.
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.
@NassauExec It's a land grab and gas nothing to with energy. Solar is just the vehicle the corporations are using to navigate around legalities to swoop up land with tax payer money.
Is it any wonder property values near solar complexes go down?
This is the signage you’re staring at out your back window. It obliterates any semblance of a viewshed, pastoral history, and the American agricultural way of life.
The same thing would happen if a Walmart or any other industrial complex was suddenly allowed to be built next to your house.
Except a Walmart can’t do that. It has to follow zoning. Everyone around you has to follow the town zoning, or they’ll be fined.
Unless you own a foreign solar corporation. Then you can break from our American zoning.
That’s what makes this more than a “personal decision” to alter your land. It causes a “take” in property values for everyone in the greater area. And it’s causing in-fighting among families and siblings that have been the backbone of our rural villages for generations.
It’s a massive money-laundering operation between New York State and foreign corporations intent on grabbing subsidies, credits, and locking American farmland into 40+ year leases.
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More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
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.”
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!
I have been told countless times over the last 48 hours that I am a conspiracy theorist.
That I do not know basketball.
That I do not understand the WNBA.
And that my articles are too long.
So I wrote this...
I do not believe there is some organized, calculated operation to take down Caitlin Clark.
That would be too simple.
The truth is deeper... and far more damaging.
Caitlin Clark walked into a league that spent nearly three decades convincing itself that its weaknesses were culture.
For years, the WNBA was not a mainstream sports product.
It was a cause.
A talking point.
A subsidized idea.
A league people were told they should support, even when the product on the floor often failed to earn that support from casual fans.
The empty seats were excused.
The financial struggles were excused.
The rough offensive flow was excused.
The poor spacing was excused.
The inconsistent officiating was excused.
The excessive physicality was excused.
The lack of mainstream interest was excused.
And anytime fans questioned the product, the answer was usually the same:
You just do not understand women’s basketball and you're racist.
That was the lie the league told itself for too long.
Because a lot of fans understood basketball perfectly fine.
They just did not like what they were watching.
Too often, the WNBA confused physicality with quality.
It confused survival with success.
It confused being protected with being excellent.
It confused an insulated culture with a strong one.
And then Caitlin Clark arrived.
She did not come in asking people to support the league out of obligation.
She made people want to watch.
That is the difference.
Caitlin brought range, pace, vision, passing angles, court gravity, creativity, and real basketball electricity.
She made regular-season games feel like events.
She made casual fans stop scrolling.
She made people who had ignored the WNBA for years suddenly care about matchups, rotations, officiating, coaching decisions, and league standards.
And that is where the collision happened.
Caitlin Clark exposed the gap between what the WNBA had convinced itself was good enough and what mainstream sports fans actually expect.
Fans want skill.
They want spacing.
They want pace.
They want shooting.
They want smart coaching.
They want fair officiating.
They want stars protected.
They want basketball that looks modern, intelligent, and entertaining.
They did not show up to watch Caitlin get grabbed, held, shoved, bumped, and treated like every possession needs to become a wrestling match in the name of “physicality.”
They also did not show up to watch the basketball constantly pushed into the background while social messaging, league-approved narratives, and cultural lectures compete for center stage.
That is not evolution.
That is a league clinging to old habits because it does not know how to handle the future standing right in front of it.
And Caitlin Clark is the future.
That does not mean she is perfect.
She is not.
That does not mean veterans have no value.
They do.
That does not mean physicality has no place in basketball.
It does.
But there is a difference between physical basketball and ugly basketball.
There is a difference between toughness and fouling.
There is a difference between defensive pressure and mugging someone off the ball.
There is a difference between culture and bad habits that went unchallenged because not enough people were watching.
Caitlin did not create the league’s problems.
She exposed them.
She exposed the officiating.
She exposed the coaching gap.
She exposed the outdated style.
She exposed the resentment toward new fans.
She exposed the discomfort some people have with a player becoming bigger than the system that was supposed to contain her.
And more than anything, she exposed a league that is still trying to force a generational player into an old version of basketball that she has already outgrown.
That is why this does not feel like a conspiracy.
It feels like resistance to change.
The WNBA finally got the player who could push the league into a new era, and too many people inside the ecosystem seem determined to make her prove she belongs in the old one.
That is backwards.
You do not take the most skilled, market-changing player your league has ever seen and ask her to shrink into the culture that failed to attract mainstream fans in the first place.
You build around her.
You modernize around her.
You protect what she represents.
Because she is not just another player.
She is the mirror.
She is showing the league what it has been, what it is, and what it could become if it would stop defending its flaws as tradition.
And the frustrating part is that the next generation is already here.
You can see it with Caitlin.
You can see it with Paige Bueckers.
You can see it with Sonia Citron.
You can see it with Aliyah Boston.
You can see it with JuJu Watkins.
The skill is changing.
The training is better.
The footwork is better.
The shooting is better.
The spacing is better.
The basketball IQ is better.
But too much of the league around them is still operating like nothing has changed.
Same coaching habits.
Same officiating problems.
Same marketing instincts.
Same defensive excuses.
Same resentment toward criticism.
Same belief that the old WNBA culture must be protected, even if it means slowing down the very players who could make the league bigger than it has ever been.
That is the real story.
Caitlin Clark is not being taken down by some secret plan.
She is being resisted by a league that still does not fully understand what she represents.
She represents a better product.
A bigger audience.
A more skilled game.
A more modern game.
A version of women’s basketball that does not need to be sold as charity, activism, obligation, or guilt.
It can be sold as basketball.
Great basketball.
But that requires the league to stop pretending its weaknesses are sacred.
It requires officials to clean up the game.
It requires coaches to modernize.
It requires veterans to adapt.
It requires media voices to stop protecting the old product from honest criticism.
And it requires the WNBA to stop resenting the very fans it spent decades trying to attract.
So no, I do not think there is a coordinated takedown of Caitlin Clark.
I think it is bigger than that.
I think Caitlin walked into a league that spent years convincing itself its flaws were culture.
And now that a generational player has arrived to expose the difference, too many people are trying to humble her instead of learning from her.
That is not Caitlin Clark’s failure.
That is the league refusing to recognize the future.
🚨 NOW: The area around ICE Newark is DEAD SILENT after NJSP FORCED rioters out of the area
Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars worth of supplies are just abandoned outside the facility.
It is genuinely mindblowing how much money is poured into riot supplies.
See for yourselves 👇🏻