Our September 28 Finger Lakes Forecast webinar on Land Use and Renewables attracted a large audience of 116 registrants from across upstate NY to learn about the process in NYS for siting various sizes of solar arrays, using transportation rights-of-way, brownfields, and marginal lands to host solar, and agrivoltaics – the potential to combine crop and livestock…
On October 11th at 6:30 pm, join the League of Women Voters of New York State, The Nature Conservancy, WE ACT, and the New York State Conference of Operating Engineers to learn about the Clean Water, Clean Air, Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022. Speakers will include: Jessica Ottney Mahar, The Nature Conservancy Pamela…
The Friends of the Ithaca Farmers Market (IFM) is announcing its first fundraising event, “The Battle of the (Farm) Bands”. Farmers Market affiliated bands will compete on Sunday, October 9 from 5:00-8:00pm at IFM’s Steamboat Landing Pavilion, 545 3rd Street in Ithaca. The event will feature IFM food and drink vendors, a raffle, and a…
Join Women of Italian and Syracuse Heritage in Central New York (WISH CNY), Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), Resilient Indigenous Action Collective (RIAC), and others at the Everson Museum of Art Plaza on Monday, October 10th to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Onondaga Nation territory. The event will begin at 5:30 pm, and all…
Greenidge Generation missed its deadline from the Department of Environmental Conservation to install fish screens on its water intake pipe, which puts the aquatic life in the Seneca Lake in danger. For more information, read this blog post by Peter Mantius: https://waterfrontonline.blog/2022/10/01/missing-deadline-to-install-fish-screens-greenidge-plant-begins-sixth-year-of-harming-aquatic-life-in-seneca-lake/
Every day around the world escalating climate disruption is taking lives, property and economic stability from communities. It will get much worse if we don’t reduce emissions by transitioning to cleaner sources of power. But where should we put the solar and wind farms we are going to need? NYS has set a goal of providing 100% of our electrical…
Greenidge Generation has applied for a Department of Environmental Conservation permit to begin a new dredging project, which will extract sediment from Seneca Lake to make space for a wedge-wire screen assembly installation. This project poses a high risk of mercury, PCBs, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals contaminating the lake. However, the DEC has neglected…