#ButKathy, in creating #ORES to streamline approval of projects like solar farms, cutting the red tape as you say, Albany lawmakers took away local home rule. So, is that the trade off? Does cutting red tape = municipal rights being lost? @GovKathyHochul @alex_fasulo @NassauExec

Here's another point of view on solar farms in upstate NY. poststar.com/opinion/editori…

To fully understand how evil these foreign solar and wind corporations are, I need you to take some time out of your day today to read the screenshots attached below. I anonymously received one of the solar contracts that was dispersed to landowners in the Flat Creek Solar project footprint, which is located in Montgomery County. Flat Creek, like every ORES project, received its final permit. It will irreversibly fragment and destroy the Amish community there, as well as the bald eagles that nest WITHIN the facility site (I documented that on here earlier this spring). I'm not sure where to begin with how one-sided, crooked, and broad this contract is in favor of the developer. It grants the developer broad rights to transmission facilities poles, underground and overhead lines, communication systems, access roads, vehicles and equipment, and future replacement and reconstruction. The easement is PERPETUAL! The contract is for 25-years, but if you read on, you see the developer has the right to extend it for 5-years at a time at will. That's how these contracts become 40-year leases that transfer our prime farmland into the hands of foreign countries. Owner restrictions are shocking. On page 4-5, the owner agrees not to interfere with the easement, build structures that affect it, use the property in ways that could impact developer operations, or impose restrictions that impair the easement. Page 6 contains a "Taking" provision. If eminent domain occurs, the developer receives compensation for damage to its facilities and the developer may receive compensation for loss of use and business interests. The developer also retains significant rights regarding the award... many landowners don't realize they will be sharing condemnation proceeds with an easement holder! And don't forget the gag order. It says the owner agrees to keep confidential: the agreement itself, information regarding the developer's operations, information regarding the developer's project, and "any other information" provided by the developer that is designated confidential. If you can think, for a single moment, that this is about saving the environment and the climate, you need to read through this contract below. This is foreign corporate pillaging and intimidation waged against the rural towns that safeguard our best farmland in New York State.

Interesting detail on NY blocking gas to New England (and then blocking FOIL requests about it): "Because certification records are dispersed across NYDEC’s nine district offices, the agency determined that producing all...would be too time-consuming and therefore infeasible."

Look for patterns. They are everywhere.

🚨 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: (518) 455-5177 | District: (845) 454-1703 ✉️ barrettd@nyassembly.gov - *Speaker Carl Heastie 📞 (518) 455-3791 ✉️ Speaker@nyassembly.gov - Your Assemblymember & State Senator nyassembly.gov/mem/search/ & nysenate.gov/find-my-senator RT & tag your reps! Flood the lines & inboxes — protect NY waters. 🇺🇸

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.

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?

Here's a reliable cache of weather data that includes sunshine and wind in select locations in the United States. share.google/877XjCY9Zln1GX8…

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.

That’s me!

New York State has spent $88.7 billion dollars on commercial solar and wind since passing the 2019 Climate Act. That $88.7 billion has only brought 2,200MW of dependable energy replacement generation online. At the same time, NY took 4,400MW of dependable energy generation offline, like the Indian Point Energy Center that generated 2,000MW of energy. If solar and wind created reliable, effective, and dependable energy, especially when we need it most in this climate (during our winters), I wouldn't have an argument here. If that $88.7 billion bought New Yorkers so much available energy that our electric bills were a fraction of what they were last year, I wouldn't have an argument here. The reality is that, on a quest to virtue signal our way to being "carbon neutral" as part of the idiotic 2019 Climate Act, New York has spent $88.7 billion dollars to bring HALF of the energy back online that it took OFFLINE to "save the climate." Your electric bills haven't gone down. In fact, they've tripled since 2025. The state is now telling us we may have grid failure this summer during peak energy demand periods. Your electric bill tripled because NY needs to get that $88.7 billion from somewhere. They get it from you. You are paying for the FAILED socialized rollout of commercial solar and wind. From that math, NY will need another $88.7 billion to get the state back to the 4,400MW of energy generation we already had before a bunch of compromised politicians that are guzzling down foreign renewable kickbacks by the mouthful sat down in 2019 to sign one of the most destructive pieces of legislation ever forced on this state. Along the way, we've lost hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, forest, wetlands, and grasslands for 2,200MW of energy.

Solar facility in Adirondack Park on hold for now. adirondackexplorer.org/envir…

ARTEMIS II🚨: In the mission, the 4 astronauts will travel 400,000 km from Earth, which would be the farthest any human has ever gone in all of humanity.