Buy American farmland before corporations do!!
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One thing that has been constant since I started learning about the Office of Renewable Energy Siting is a lack of transparency. That extends to NYS agency social media pages... so we're suing again.
Young/Sommer represents over 40 large-scale renewable projects in the ORES/Article VIII pipeline. Its managing partner will now be able to vote on renewable development in New Scotland, New York.
To no one's surprise, the Public Service Commission (PSC) granted Boralex's request to transfer over 13,100 acres of Upstate New York farmland locked into solar leases to Brookfield Asset Management.
I caught up with the Amish community that built my farm for me this week. I got to see their latest construction builds, film them in action for old time's sake, and talk about future solar battles.
When the world comes to a town that's inhabited by only 2,000 people, the local, rural way of life is obliterated in ways you may not have considered. I spoke to a woman who described it in detail.
After almost a year of covering wind and solar destruction in Upstate NY, I found myself eating lunch in the White House with ranchers from around the country there to defend their land.
NY's decision to downgrade what it constitutes as prime farmland in siting solar complexes, as well as no end-of-life plan for millions of solar panels, has the federal government angry.
In an effort to get our home rule back, which was devoured by the creation of the Office of Renewable Energy Siting, 4 more lawsuits were filed against ORES on Thursday, June 18, 2026.
The monarch butterfly's only host plant, milkweed, is back at the Fort Edward Grasslands in full force. Not even days after the milkweed bloomed, I saw the first monarch of the season.
On Friday, June 12th, 2026, I, in my capacity as the president of the American Land Rescue Fund with the Town of Glen, New York, filed a lawsuit against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting.
