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Buy American farmland before foreign wind and solar corporations do | President: American Land Rescue Fund | Exposing the “green energy” scam

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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 Jennifer Suzanne

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 Jennifer Suzanne

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They want to turn 1,800 acres (total project footprint) of gorgeous, designated grassland habitat and farmland into a 100MW solar complex in Fort Edward, NY. Our state’s own New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation is looking the other way, allowing the Office of Renewable Energy Siting to sell our land to foreign corporations out of Canada.

They want to turn 1,800 acres (total project footprint) of gorgeous, designated grassland habitat and farmland into a 100MW solar complex in Fort Edward, NY. Our state’s own New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation is looking the other way, allowing the Office of Renewable Energy Siting to sell our land to foreign corporations out of Canada.

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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: Jennifer Suzanne

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: Jennifer Suzanne

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The “clean” energy they promised you. Broken, shattered solar panels leaching cadmium, lead, PFAS, microplastics, and glass shards into what was previously prime farmland and habitat. The broken panels have been there for years according to locals. The solar company doesn’t care. They already grabbed their subsidies and credits. No one monitors these facilities. That’s why they install perimeter fencing. This land will never be farmed again. Upstate NY has been invaded.

The “clean” energy they promised you. Broken, shattered solar panels leaching cadmium, lead, PFAS, microplastics, and glass shards into what was previously prime farmland and habitat. The broken panels have been there for years according to locals. The solar company doesn’t care. They already grabbed their subsidies and credits. No one monitors these facilities. That’s why they install perimeter fencing. This land will never be farmed again. Upstate NY has been invaded.

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This was land that the Amish family across the street used to graze their cattle. Now it’s home to one of the ugliest solar complexes in the county. The Amish will probably be the last people feeding us 30 years from now when the current generation of farmers retires. What an awful ending to farmland. This hideous sight has become common in rural Upstate NY. We’re losing our history, culture, and viewsheds alongside the land that feeds us.

This was land that the Amish family across the street used to graze their cattle. Now it’s home to one of the ugliest solar complexes in the county. The Amish will probably be the last people feeding us 30 years from now when the current generation of farmers retires. What an awful ending to farmland. This hideous sight has become common in rural Upstate NY. We’re losing our history, culture, and viewsheds alongside the land that feeds us.

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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 Kathy Hochul 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.”

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 Kathy Hochul 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.”

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What a sad ending to prime farmland, grassland habitat, pastoral history, and viewsheds for everyone in this area. “It’s my property - I’ll do what I want!” Zoning exists for a reason. It’s why you can’t build a Walmart in your backyard if you decide to one day. The zoning creates predictability that protects everyone’s property values. When one person is allowed to deviate and build an industrial complex, equipped with perimeter fencing, Chinese-made panels, “danger signs,” and access roads… it causes everyone else surrounding the complex to suffer a decrease in their property value. How is that fair or American? Along the way, the soil, water, and wildlife pay the price… and we’ll all be paying an even bigger price when a food autonomy crisis looms on the horizon.

What a sad ending to prime farmland, grassland habitat, pastoral history, and viewsheds for everyone in this area. “It’s my property - I’ll do what I want!” Zoning exists for a reason. It’s why you can’t build a Walmart in your backyard if you decide to one day. The zoning creates predictability that protects everyone’s property values. When one person is allowed to deviate and build an industrial complex, equipped with perimeter fencing, Chinese-made panels, “danger signs,” and access roads… it causes everyone else surrounding the complex to suffer a decrease in their property value. How is that fair or American? Along the way, the soil, water, and wildlife pay the price… and we’ll all be paying an even bigger price when a food autonomy crisis looms on the horizon.

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When I first began my search to find the un-redacted files for Fort Edward Solar, I had no idea the lengths to which New York State and these foreign solar developers were willing to go to force their complexes onto prime farmland and designated grasslands. This is what I found. I later tried to visit the physical ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) office. They obviously didn’t allow me to meet them. Funnily enough, 2 months later, ORES “moved its office” to a new location. It’s inaccessible to the public to this day.

When I first began my search to find the un-redacted files for Fort Edward Solar, I had no idea the lengths to which New York State and these foreign solar developers were willing to go to force their complexes onto prime farmland and designated grasslands. This is what I found. I later tried to visit the physical ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) office. They obviously didn’t allow me to meet them. Funnily enough, 2 months later, ORES “moved its office” to a new location. It’s inaccessible to the public to this day.

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What a sad sight on the same road I grew up on outside of Altamont, NY. Another solar complex going in on prime farmland and wildlife habitat, adjacent to a Wildlife Management Area (that seems to be their favorite). As the locals refer to this location: “one of the prettiest views on the whole hill.” You’re looking at dozens of acres of tracker frames, getting ready to support Chinese-manufactured solar panels that will only generate at 12-15% of their annual potential in our climate. The power won’t stay local or lower anyone’s bills in the area. In fact, taxes will go up as the municipality struggles to make up for the property tax this land was previously paying before being destroyed for a solar industrial complex.

What a sad sight on the same road I grew up on outside of Altamont, NY. Another solar complex going in on prime farmland and wildlife habitat, adjacent to a Wildlife Management Area (that seems to be their favorite). As the locals refer to this location: “one of the prettiest views on the whole hill.” You’re looking at dozens of acres of tracker frames, getting ready to support Chinese-manufactured solar panels that will only generate at 12-15% of their annual potential in our climate. The power won’t stay local or lower anyone’s bills in the area. In fact, taxes will go up as the municipality struggles to make up for the property tax this land was previously paying before being destroyed for a solar industrial complex.

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When I first learned about what was to happen to the environment at Fort Edward Solar, I thought it was an isolated incident. And then I started to travel to solar complexes. I started to talk to people. Towns started to email me. I learned that environmental devastation is commonplace at every single ORES wind and solar complex. Rural New Yorkers had lost their ability to govern their towns statewide. It’s all purposeful, the centralization of power. They don’t want us governing our resources without Albany’s input. So they created ORES. And I created a nonprofit. This is bigger than Fort Edward. This is a statewide lawsuit that attacks the RAPID Act regulations and concerns the transmission lines. Albany took our home rule. It’s time to get it back. You can read the full petition on our nonprofit website. Linking below. This will take substantial funding to see it through. Your support is appreciated. Thank you. We’re just getting started!

When I first learned about what was to happen to the environment at Fort Edward Solar, I thought it was an isolated incident. And then I started to travel to solar complexes. I started to talk to people. Towns started to email me. I learned that environmental devastation is commonplace at every single ORES wind and solar complex. Rural New Yorkers had lost their ability to govern their towns statewide. It’s all purposeful, the centralization of power. They don’t want us governing our resources without Albany’s input. So they created ORES. And I created a nonprofit. This is bigger than Fort Edward. This is a statewide lawsuit that attacks the RAPID Act regulations and concerns the transmission lines. Albany took our home rule. It’s time to get it back. You can read the full petition on our nonprofit website. Linking below. This will take substantial funding to see it through. Your support is appreciated. Thank you. We’re just getting started!

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How this isn’t being covered by our local media is beyond me. How this isn’t NATIONAL NEWS is beyond me. Here you have an entire county, two towns, and a nonprofit suing to protect itself from authoritarian solar overreach out of Albany. This same county, the Town of Glen, and GlenFARMLand also sued a few months ago over Mill Point Solar. That is 7 total lawsuits out of one county in the span of 3 months in an effort to protect itself. Why do we all need to sue? ORES was created in a way where it supersedes local zoning and moratoriums, as well as our home rule that is granted to New York citizens in our state constitution. It does it all to forcibly site wind and solar against the will of the rural residents, town supervisors, and county attorneys. And legacy media wonders why it’s dying in our world today. What a joke.

How this isn’t being covered by our local media is beyond me. How this isn’t NATIONAL NEWS is beyond me. Here you have an entire county, two towns, and a nonprofit suing to protect itself from authoritarian solar overreach out of Albany. This same county, the Town of Glen, and GlenFARMLand also sued a few months ago over Mill Point Solar. That is 7 total lawsuits out of one county in the span of 3 months in an effort to protect itself. Why do we all need to sue? ORES was created in a way where it supersedes local zoning and moratoriums, as well as our home rule that is granted to New York citizens in our state constitution. It does it all to forcibly site wind and solar against the will of the rural residents, town supervisors, and county attorneys. And legacy media wonders why it’s dying in our world today. What a joke.

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The Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. EPA, John Rich🇺🇸, Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Lee Zeldin sent a letter to our NY governor, Kathy Hochul, this week. When you destroy home rule, granted to the citizens of that state in its constitution, this is what it gets you. ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) is pretending this isn’t happening and continuing to rubber stamp final permits for foreign solar corporations. Next up is Shepherd’s Run in Copake, New York. Only lawsuits and the federal government will stop these people. We’ve sued twice. Time for phase two. We’re only going to get one chance to defend our farmland and endangered species.

The Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. EPA, John Rich🇺🇸, Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Lee Zeldin sent a letter to our NY governor, Kathy Hochul, this week. When you destroy home rule, granted to the citizens of that state in its constitution, this is what it gets you. ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) is pretending this isn’t happening and continuing to rubber stamp final permits for foreign solar corporations. Next up is Shepherd’s Run in Copake, New York. Only lawsuits and the federal government will stop these people. We’ve sued twice. Time for phase two. We’re only going to get one chance to defend our farmland and endangered species.

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You’re looking at one of the most imperiled habitats in not only New York State, but throughout the entire country. You’re looking at a grassland habitat. Grasslands are disappearing faster than any other habitat today. Why? They are “cleared” lands that developers love to target. Commercial solar and wind especially love grassland habitat for their green energy subsidies and credits. Here in New York, our Office of Renewable Energy (ORES) redacts all documents related to the sensitivity of grasslands to protect foreign renewable developers. We’re losing grassland so rapidly that grassland bird species (and other grassland-dependent species) are one of the fastest declining groups of animals in North America. Over 50% of all grassland birds have disappeared since 1970, totaling to 700 million birds. Of those that remain, their habitat is disappearing faster than is sustainable. That’s why this Fort Edward Grassland has so many distinctions, like being a National Audubon Important Bird Area. It all meant something until ORES was created. Now this grassland is for sale to foreign solar developers. The green energy movement is a lie. We must protect what remains of America’s grasslands.

You’re looking at one of the most imperiled habitats in not only New York State, but throughout the entire country. You’re looking at a grassland habitat. Grasslands are disappearing faster than any other habitat today. Why? They are “cleared” lands that developers love to target. Commercial solar and wind especially love grassland habitat for their green energy subsidies and credits. Here in New York, our Office of Renewable Energy (ORES) redacts all documents related to the sensitivity of grasslands to protect foreign renewable developers. We’re losing grassland so rapidly that grassland bird species (and other grassland-dependent species) are one of the fastest declining groups of animals in North America. Over 50% of all grassland birds have disappeared since 1970, totaling to 700 million birds. Of those that remain, their habitat is disappearing faster than is sustainable. That’s why this Fort Edward Grassland has so many distinctions, like being a National Audubon Important Bird Area. It all meant something until ORES was created. Now this grassland is for sale to foreign solar developers. The green energy movement is a lie. We must protect what remains of America’s grasslands.

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A Canadian renewable corporation is trying to build an 1,800 acre solar complex on one of the last grasslands of its kind in the northeast. Boralex, soon to be Brookfield, will likely be awarded its final permit by ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) next week. We are prepared to sue over it. I recorded this video at the grasslands this past winter. It’s one of the last homes for short-eared owls in New York State. It’s such an important habitat that the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation covered the grassland in “critical endangered species present” signage. Apparently that doesn’t matter when a foreign solar corporation comes to town.

A Canadian renewable corporation is trying to build an 1,800 acre solar complex on one of the last grasslands of its kind in the northeast. Boralex, soon to be Brookfield, will likely be awarded its final permit by ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) next week. We are prepared to sue over it. I recorded this video at the grasslands this past winter. It’s one of the last homes for short-eared owls in New York State. It’s such an important habitat that the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation covered the grassland in “critical endangered species present” signage. Apparently that doesn’t matter when a foreign solar corporation comes to town.

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You are looking at Dept. of Agriculture prime topsoil being stripped off farmland that’s hosting Excelsior Solar. The solar salesmen told everyone in the area the land would be “farmable again.” They are stripping prime topsoil that’s grown food for nearly 100 years in the area, loading it up, and taking it off the property. This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz. They are then bringing in low quality soil, clay, and crushed rock to take its place. Where is the prime topsoil going? The drivers do their best to hide that from the landowners in Byron. The resources, like topsoil, are extracted during late or early hours, sometimes behind fencing so landowners that leased can’t measure the resources they are losing (and not being paid for - more posts on that). One investigation uncovered the soil goes to a local dump, as part of an arrangement with incoming hazardous waste that the landfills will have to accept. For legal purposes, this investigation uncovered that allegedly. USDA prime topsoil takes 100 to 500 years to form. But it only takes an afternoon for it to be loaded into trucks, carted off as part of the biggest scam ever peddled on the American public. ORES doesn’t monitor the worksites. It’s the Wild West. And it’s all on purpose.
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You are looking at Dept. of Agriculture prime topsoil being stripped off farmland that’s hosting Excelsior Solar. The solar salesmen told everyone in the area the land would be “farmable again.” They are stripping prime topsoil that’s grown food for nearly 100 years in the area, loading it up, and taking it off the property. This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz. They are then bringing in low quality soil, clay, and crushed rock to take its place. Where is the prime topsoil going? The drivers do their best to hide that from the landowners in Byron. The resources, like topsoil, are extracted during late or early hours, sometimes behind fencing so landowners that leased can’t measure the resources they are losing (and not being paid for - more posts on that). One investigation uncovered the soil goes to a local dump, as part of an arrangement with incoming hazardous waste that the landfills will have to accept. For legal purposes, this investigation uncovered that allegedly. USDA prime topsoil takes 100 to 500 years to form. But it only takes an afternoon for it to be loaded into trucks, carted off as part of the biggest scam ever peddled on the American public. ORES doesn’t monitor the worksites. It’s the Wild West. And it’s all on purpose.

Alex Fasulo

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All 5 NY Department of Public Service Siting Board (SB) members had alternates take their place for today’s hearing on Alle-Catt Wind. Not one actual sitting SB member was present. It was evident immediately that the hearing was nothing more than political theater. It was decided before today’s hearing that the SB would deny Cattaraugus County and the Coalition of Concerned Citizens a re-hearing on the nighttime noise issue with the Alle-Catt Wind turbines. When each alternate was given a chance to weigh in on the record, all five were prepped and at the ready to say, “no questions and no comment.” Each one did as they had been diligently instructed. All five avoided eye contact with me at the back of the room. You could feel the shame wafting off some of them. These bureaucrats in Albany, NY are making decisions about rural towns and counties they’ll never step foot in. And your tax dollars are going to salaries for people who can’t show up to their own SB hearings. Something needs to change.
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All 5 NY Department of Public Service Siting Board (SB) members had alternates take their place for today’s hearing on Alle-Catt Wind. Not one actual sitting SB member was present. It was evident immediately that the hearing was nothing more than political theater. It was decided before today’s hearing that the SB would deny Cattaraugus County and the Coalition of Concerned Citizens a re-hearing on the nighttime noise issue with the Alle-Catt Wind turbines. When each alternate was given a chance to weigh in on the record, all five were prepped and at the ready to say, “no questions and no comment.” Each one did as they had been diligently instructed. All five avoided eye contact with me at the back of the room. You could feel the shame wafting off some of them. These bureaucrats in Albany, NY are making decisions about rural towns and counties they’ll never step foot in. And your tax dollars are going to salaries for people who can’t show up to their own SB hearings. Something needs to change.

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Today I spoke with a local farm owner who has been aggressively approached by SIX different solar companies to lease her acreage. This woman is actively farming and selling produce at local farmer’s markets. This is a foreign corporate invasion that’ll interrupt our future food supply more than people are talking about.
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Today I spoke with a local farm owner who has been aggressively approached by SIX different solar companies to lease her acreage. This woman is actively farming and selling produce at local farmer’s markets. This is a foreign corporate invasion that’ll interrupt our future food supply more than people are talking about.

Alex Fasulo

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A perfect storm caused the Flat Creek Solar permit to be relinquished yesterday. From Montgomery county and local towns and nonprofits suing the state, to the main landowner that leased for the project suing the company for not paying them, to the Executive Order disrupting foreign supply chains for these (foreign) solar complexes… The Amish, the landowners, and the eagles have been set free. It’s a good day. There are 49 other communities being held hostage by the Office of Renewable Energy Siting in New York State. Our work is not even close from being done. But as the Amish told me yesterday, they jumped for joy in Canajoharie, NY. Pop a bottle tonight in honor of this unprecedented victory! Time to keep the pressure ON! The animals at Fort Edward Solar need this help next.
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A perfect storm caused the Flat Creek Solar permit to be relinquished yesterday. From Montgomery county and local towns and nonprofits suing the state, to the main landowner that leased for the project suing the company for not paying them, to the Executive Order disrupting foreign supply chains for these (foreign) solar complexes… The Amish, the landowners, and the eagles have been set free. It’s a good day. There are 49 other communities being held hostage by the Office of Renewable Energy Siting in New York State. Our work is not even close from being done. But as the Amish told me yesterday, they jumped for joy in Canajoharie, NY. Pop a bottle tonight in honor of this unprecedented victory! Time to keep the pressure ON! The animals at Fort Edward Solar need this help next.

Alex Fasulo

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You're looking at a drone shot of Byron, New York, where thousands of acres of solar panels have swallowed up a county that boasts the MOST amount of productive agricultural land in the entire state. This is only a portion of the panels that have been anchored into Byron for Excelsior Solar. With the newly announced Brusselville Solar on the ORES docket, this aerial view will only encompass a fraction of the total solar footprint. Those responsible for this must be held accountable. This video should be on NATIONAL news. We are going to lose our state and the land that feeds us very quickly if there is not immediate intervention. This is dystopian, anti-human, catastrophic to wildlife, a direct threat to our future food autonomy, and the largest land grab of our American lifetimes from generational landowners to foreign corporations. And it's all on purpose.
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You're looking at a drone shot of Byron, New York, where thousands of acres of solar panels have swallowed up a county that boasts the MOST amount of productive agricultural land in the entire state. This is only a portion of the panels that have been anchored into Byron for Excelsior Solar. With the newly announced Brusselville Solar on the ORES docket, this aerial view will only encompass a fraction of the total solar footprint. Those responsible for this must be held accountable. This video should be on NATIONAL news. We are going to lose our state and the land that feeds us very quickly if there is not immediate intervention. This is dystopian, anti-human, catastrophic to wildlife, a direct threat to our future food autonomy, and the largest land grab of our American lifetimes from generational landowners to foreign corporations. And it's all on purpose.

Alex Fasulo

158,294 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

This is the state of Upstate New York right now. It’s becoming a commercial solar wasteland, all for a form of energy that only converts at 15% of its annual potential in this climate. This is a money-laundering scheme between NY, Kathy Hochul, and foreign renewable corporations cashing in on millions in green energy subsidies and credits. Those credits? They’re subsidized using YOUR taxpayer dollars and delivery charges on our electric bills. We need the federal government to intervene in New York State YESTERDAY!
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This is the state of Upstate New York right now. It’s becoming a commercial solar wasteland, all for a form of energy that only converts at 15% of its annual potential in this climate. This is a money-laundering scheme between NY, Kathy Hochul, and foreign renewable corporations cashing in on millions in green energy subsidies and credits. Those credits? They’re subsidized using YOUR taxpayer dollars and delivery charges on our electric bills. We need the federal government to intervene in New York State YESTERDAY!

Alex Fasulo

192,373 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

For everyone who refuses to believe New York is felling hundreds of thousands of trees to make way for commercial solar… I give you this submitted video from earlier this year. Taken at Camp Smith, over 50 acres of forest, full of bears, deer, beavers, and bald eagles, was felled for a 20MW solar complex. Since commercial solar only converts at 15% of its annual potential in Upstate New York, this hideous complex will end up generating a measly 3MW of power annually. We need to save the environment from the people who want “to save the environment.”
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For everyone who refuses to believe New York is felling hundreds of thousands of trees to make way for commercial solar… I give you this submitted video from earlier this year. Taken at Camp Smith, over 50 acres of forest, full of bears, deer, beavers, and bald eagles, was felled for a 20MW solar complex. Since commercial solar only converts at 15% of its annual potential in Upstate New York, this hideous complex will end up generating a measly 3MW of power annually. We need to save the environment from the people who want “to save the environment.”

Alex Fasulo

164,888 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Happening now at Excelsior Solar in Western New York: topsoil is being stripped and moved off properties. The soil is moved around properties, mixed with clay and crushed rock. Some is taken offsite to a waste management facility, where it’s later brought to the dump. Other loads are taken from one property and dumped on other participating properties. This is particularly traumatic for locals to watch because this is Dept. of Agriculture prime farmland and topsoil that’s been used to grow food for nearly a century. As locals say, “they are playing the shell game of topsoil.” When the soil is moved around multiple properties, carted off, and mixed with clay, the original value of the soil is lost. Landowners will never be able to calculate the financial loss of their resources. To say the land will be “farmable again” is one of the most egregious foreign corporate lies ever spewed at rural New Yorkers’ doorsteps. Something must be done about this. This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz.
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Happening now at Excelsior Solar in Western New York: topsoil is being stripped and moved off properties. The soil is moved around properties, mixed with clay and crushed rock. Some is taken offsite to a waste management facility, where it’s later brought to the dump. Other loads are taken from one property and dumped on other participating properties. This is particularly traumatic for locals to watch because this is Dept. of Agriculture prime farmland and topsoil that’s been used to grow food for nearly a century. As locals say, “they are playing the shell game of topsoil.” When the soil is moved around multiple properties, carted off, and mixed with clay, the original value of the soil is lost. Landowners will never be able to calculate the financial loss of their resources. To say the land will be “farmable again” is one of the most egregious foreign corporate lies ever spewed at rural New Yorkers’ doorsteps. Something must be done about this. This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz.

Alex Fasulo

75,756 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

We were not allowed to film, take photos, or record today’s hearing in Copake, NY. Only 10-minutes into the hearing and I could see why. It was an absolute bloodbath for the developer, Hecate Energy, who was exposed lying multiple times by the Town of Copake and the Department of Public Service. I encourage everyone to read the transcript when it becomes available. It was on display for all to see here that these solar and wind companies cut corners, lie, misconstrue the truth, and hide behind terminology to get their final ORES permits. Normally, ORES rubber stamps those permits. And our environment is the first loser. But today, something different happened. I have more coverage to share.
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We were not allowed to film, take photos, or record today’s hearing in Copake, NY. Only 10-minutes into the hearing and I could see why. It was an absolute bloodbath for the developer, Hecate Energy, who was exposed lying multiple times by the Town of Copake and the Department of Public Service. I encourage everyone to read the transcript when it becomes available. It was on display for all to see here that these solar and wind companies cut corners, lie, misconstrue the truth, and hide behind terminology to get their final ORES permits. Normally, ORES rubber stamps those permits. And our environment is the first loser. But today, something different happened. I have more coverage to share.

Alex Fasulo

43,311 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

I traveled to Copake, New York this past January to sit in on their ORES public hearing. This town has been trying to fight off Shepherd’s Run Solar for almost a DECADE! The elected town officials, the county board, the citizens, and the nonprofits in the town unanimously oppose this project. The Office of Renewable Energy Siting is forcing it anyway. This is what the dismantling of democracy looks like in real-time.
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I traveled to Copake, New York this past January to sit in on their ORES public hearing. This town has been trying to fight off Shepherd’s Run Solar for almost a DECADE! The elected town officials, the county board, the citizens, and the nonprofits in the town unanimously oppose this project. The Office of Renewable Energy Siting is forcing it anyway. This is what the dismantling of democracy looks like in real-time.

Alex Fasulo

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The land will never be farmed again. Silver, cadmium, sometimes lead, microplastics, and zinc leach off the panels onto the soil below them. One hail storm, blizzard, or tornado and glass shards will coat the earth below the panels. That’s why potato growing associations nationwide won’t grow potatoes on former solar complexes. They’re taking our best farmland for renewable energy credits and deals with foreign corporations.
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The land will never be farmed again. Silver, cadmium, sometimes lead, microplastics, and zinc leach off the panels onto the soil below them. One hail storm, blizzard, or tornado and glass shards will coat the earth below the panels. That’s why potato growing associations nationwide won’t grow potatoes on former solar complexes. They’re taking our best farmland for renewable energy credits and deals with foreign corporations.

Alex Fasulo

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Yesterday, every person I have come to know and learn from in this ORES battle gathered in my Amish barn, with the Dept. of Agriculture and John Rich🇺🇸, to call for the dissolution of this bureaucratic office. After John called the meeting to order, I read my speech I wrote the night before. I mean every word of this speech. These are everyday people who are heroes. And it’s everyday Americans that will free our small towns and villages countrywide from authoritarian governments sitting in their state capitals. I will never forget yesterday. I don’t think anyone else who was there will forget it either.
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Yesterday, every person I have come to know and learn from in this ORES battle gathered in my Amish barn, with the Dept. of Agriculture and John Rich🇺🇸, to call for the dissolution of this bureaucratic office. After John called the meeting to order, I read my speech I wrote the night before. I mean every word of this speech. These are everyday people who are heroes. And it’s everyday Americans that will free our small towns and villages countrywide from authoritarian governments sitting in their state capitals. I will never forget yesterday. I don’t think anyone else who was there will forget it either.

Alex Fasulo

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More from Ticonderoga, New York, which sits inside of the Adirondack Park. You, as a private citizen, are not allowed to do anything to the land in the ADK Park. You’ll be fined if you do. But foreign solar developers? They’re free to strip topsoil, grade, bulldoze, apply herbicides, fence off habitat, and drive Chinese-made panels into the earth.
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More from Ticonderoga, New York, which sits inside of the Adirondack Park. You, as a private citizen, are not allowed to do anything to the land in the ADK Park. You’ll be fined if you do. But foreign solar developers? They’re free to strip topsoil, grade, bulldoze, apply herbicides, fence off habitat, and drive Chinese-made panels into the earth.

Alex Fasulo

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This is the aerial footage ORES doesn’t want you to see. This is what they’ve done to one rural Upstate NY town. Over 6,000 acres of land has been sited for commercial solar. The Hamlet of Byron is only 400 acres in size. And there are other solar complexes beyond the ORES monstrosities here. The people from there write to me and tell me they’ve had to mourn their home. The graves where their parents are buried are now surrounded on 4 sides by Chinese solar panels. The farmland is gone. The animals displaced. Roadkill by the perimeter fencing in every direction. No one’s electric bills went down. All of ours went up. They are using the delivery charge to socialize the failed rollout of solar and wind. What pathetic amounts of energy it generates in our northern climate isn’t for Upstate at all. It’s for NYC. We’re districts in the Hunger Games, bled dry for those in costumes over in the Capitol that laugh as they give our best land to foreign corporations. I will never, ever forgive these people. They are anti-human, anti-environment, and anti-God.
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This is the aerial footage ORES doesn’t want you to see. This is what they’ve done to one rural Upstate NY town. Over 6,000 acres of land has been sited for commercial solar. The Hamlet of Byron is only 400 acres in size. And there are other solar complexes beyond the ORES monstrosities here. The people from there write to me and tell me they’ve had to mourn their home. The graves where their parents are buried are now surrounded on 4 sides by Chinese solar panels. The farmland is gone. The animals displaced. Roadkill by the perimeter fencing in every direction. No one’s electric bills went down. All of ours went up. They are using the delivery charge to socialize the failed rollout of solar and wind. What pathetic amounts of energy it generates in our northern climate isn’t for Upstate at all. It’s for NYC. We’re districts in the Hunger Games, bled dry for those in costumes over in the Capitol that laugh as they give our best land to foreign corporations. I will never, ever forgive these people. They are anti-human, anti-environment, and anti-God.

Alex Fasulo

48,524 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Scenes out of Byron, New York, where Genesee County has been flattened beyond repair for foreign corporations intent on grabbing green energy credits and subsidies. Genesee County, not coincidentally, has the highest percentage of classified farmland of any county in New York. Since New York State uses its own soil classification system for farmland (starting in 2020), it’s been able to downgrade what’s considered prime farmland by U.S. Department of Agriculture standards. Why would New York want to do that? Foreign developers have to pay to “mitigate” the loss of prime farmland. By downgrading what’s considered prime, it spares the corporations from having to pay for the destruction of the land that feeds us. This is the biggest grift ever peddled on the people on New York. And now this is the disgustingly hideous result. This video was filmed by Jennifer Suzanne.
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Scenes out of Byron, New York, where Genesee County has been flattened beyond repair for foreign corporations intent on grabbing green energy credits and subsidies. Genesee County, not coincidentally, has the highest percentage of classified farmland of any county in New York. Since New York State uses its own soil classification system for farmland (starting in 2020), it’s been able to downgrade what’s considered prime farmland by U.S. Department of Agriculture standards. Why would New York want to do that? Foreign developers have to pay to “mitigate” the loss of prime farmland. By downgrading what’s considered prime, it spares the corporations from having to pay for the destruction of the land that feeds us. This is the biggest grift ever peddled on the people on New York. And now this is the disgustingly hideous result. This video was filmed by Jennifer Suzanne.

Alex Fasulo

46,321 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Here is the real-time capture of topsoil, stripped from properties at Excelsior Solar in Byron, New York, being moved to separate participating parcels in what locals are calling the “topsoil shell game.” This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz. This raises serious questions about the solar companies complying with the approved Agricultural Plans and permit conditions. Landowners have told me they signed after being told their “land would be farmed again and their topsoil would remain onsite.” Dept. of Agriculture prime farmland and the topsoil it contains is being stripped, loaded, moved, and in some cases, sold offsite without the landowners being consulted. The contracts say the topsoil is to “remain separate from subsoil.” Barbie has captured the companies mixing clay and rock with the prime topsoil as well. The bigger discussion here should be the FTC violations these solar companies are committing by claiming these complexes are “farms” or “will be farmed again.” When you take USDA prime topsoil and transport it off a participating parcel, replacing it with clay and rock, telling the landowners their land will be farmed again, that is a federal trade violation. Calling these “farms” at all is a trade violation. These are industrial wastelands. The companies and bureaucrats in Albany call them “farms” to circumvent the zoning everyone else out in the country has to follow.
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Here is the real-time capture of topsoil, stripped from properties at Excelsior Solar in Byron, New York, being moved to separate participating parcels in what locals are calling the “topsoil shell game.” This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz. This raises serious questions about the solar companies complying with the approved Agricultural Plans and permit conditions. Landowners have told me they signed after being told their “land would be farmed again and their topsoil would remain onsite.” Dept. of Agriculture prime farmland and the topsoil it contains is being stripped, loaded, moved, and in some cases, sold offsite without the landowners being consulted. The contracts say the topsoil is to “remain separate from subsoil.” Barbie has captured the companies mixing clay and rock with the prime topsoil as well. The bigger discussion here should be the FTC violations these solar companies are committing by claiming these complexes are “farms” or “will be farmed again.” When you take USDA prime topsoil and transport it off a participating parcel, replacing it with clay and rock, telling the landowners their land will be farmed again, that is a federal trade violation. Calling these “farms” at all is a trade violation. These are industrial wastelands. The companies and bureaucrats in Albany call them “farms” to circumvent the zoning everyone else out in the country has to follow.

Alex Fasulo

24,210 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

You’re looking at a solar complex in Ravena, New York, built in one of the cloudiest regions of the country: Upstate NY. This was prime farmland. Now it’s an industrial complex that only converts at 15% of its annual potential in this climate. The perimeter fencing is displacing wildlife in every direction. The rural character of the area is destroyed forever.
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You’re looking at a solar complex in Ravena, New York, built in one of the cloudiest regions of the country: Upstate NY. This was prime farmland. Now it’s an industrial complex that only converts at 15% of its annual potential in this climate. The perimeter fencing is displacing wildlife in every direction. The rural character of the area is destroyed forever.

Alex Fasulo

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No, you’re not looking at the Epstein files. You’re looking at New York State, in bed with a Canadian renewable company, Boralex, redacting every last piece of information as it relates to the Fort Edward Grasslands and the endangered species here that will perish if they build Fort Edward Solar. Every ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) project is littered with unlawful redactions. There’s a very small group of people getting very, very rich off this arrangement.
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No, you’re not looking at the Epstein files. You’re looking at New York State, in bed with a Canadian renewable company, Boralex, redacting every last piece of information as it relates to the Fort Edward Grasslands and the endangered species here that will perish if they build Fort Edward Solar. Every ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) project is littered with unlawful redactions. There’s a very small group of people getting very, very rich off this arrangement.

Alex Fasulo

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Our NYS governor Kathy Hochul said it herself earlier this year, “we have a problem with municipalities saying no” to big solar and wind. That’s a “problem” to her. It’s a problem to have something in the way of the biggest wealth transfer of our lifetimes: handing generational farmland to foreign corporations. So Kathy and Cuomo before her created ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) to FORCE these complexes on our rural towns. That’s how these people work. They despise democracy.
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Our NYS governor Kathy Hochul said it herself earlier this year, “we have a problem with municipalities saying no” to big solar and wind. That’s a “problem” to her. It’s a problem to have something in the way of the biggest wealth transfer of our lifetimes: handing generational farmland to foreign corporations. So Kathy and Cuomo before her created ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) to FORCE these complexes on our rural towns. That’s how these people work. They despise democracy.

Alex Fasulo

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Many have whistleblown to me that diesel generators are brought into solar complexes to bump up their numbers / fill in for the 16 hours a day they aren’t generating power IF the sun is out. For anyone familiar with Upstate NY… the sun is never out here. Ever. We have similar sunshine to Seattle, Washington. That’s why commercial solar only generates at 15% of its annual potential here. It’s not a grid fix and the powers-that-be know it.
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Many have whistleblown to me that diesel generators are brought into solar complexes to bump up their numbers / fill in for the 16 hours a day they aren’t generating power IF the sun is out. For anyone familiar with Upstate NY… the sun is never out here. Ever. We have similar sunshine to Seattle, Washington. That’s why commercial solar only generates at 15% of its annual potential here. It’s not a grid fix and the powers-that-be know it.

Alex Fasulo

37,929 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад