I’m in America for the World Cup and let me say as a British person who has been to Italy, this is the best pizza I’ve ever eaten

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.

Yes we are! This stuff is very expensive! americanlandrescuefund.com

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.

Whoa. 100 million barrels in a lot. Still “only” 1/10th the cumulative lost barrels. Nevertheless, a big deal

So here’s some insider baseball on Platner’s stuff. I knew about the Fifield abuse allegations last October when I was in Maine. I didn’t know who it was or the extend of it. All I knew is that he got violent with an ex and she was a Republican, I hinted at them here several times, saying that Mills campaign was trying to get her on the record but she, a couple of other women, didn’t want to talk. Mills campaign knew Fifield was a Republican and that she and others were holding on to their story until it was advantageous for the GOP (1)