Posted on 08/30/2026 11:08:51 AM PDT by george76
Drive from Buffalo into Genesee County and you will pass fields that have grown corn and soybeans for generations. Soon, thousands of those acres will be covered by steel and glass. New York state is forcing industrial-scale solar plants onto rural communities that never asked for them, and the people who live there are discovering just how little their voice counts when a governor decides differently.
The Mandate Behind The Mess..
New York is tearing up rural communities, wiping out wildlife sanctuaries, and burying prime agricultural soil under solar installation in the name of green energy. The root of this campaign is New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) of 2019, which demands that renewable sources supply 70% of the state’s electricity, that greenhouse gas emissions fall 40% below 1990 levels, and that the state build at least 3,000 megawatts of storage.
The footprint of the 18 solar power plants is staggering. The Cider Solar Farm in Genesee County will cover 4,000 acres, and the Ridge View Solar Farm in Niagara County will take another 2,000. Both were pushed through over the strong objections of the people who farm.
Destroy Wildlife, Redact Key Information..
What becomes of the animals living where these panels will sit? The Fort Edward project targets land inside a Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) grassland and bird sanctuary. DEC documents describe the area as critical for breeding grassland birds and wintering raptors.
The site hosts the short-eared owl, a bird so rare that the Grassland Bird Trust counts fewer than 50 breeding pairs in New York. The northern harrier, listed as threatened, hunts there. Fifteen species of reptiles and amphibians already of concern to biologists will lose their homes. These are key indicator species wildlife specialists monitor to judge ecosystem health.
You would expect a state that prides itself on environmental leadership to publish this information without hesitation. Instead, residents who filed Freedom of Information requests for an agency report on the Fort Edward site received a document so heavily blacked out that one local compared it to the redactions in the Epstein files. Why does a government agency need to hide a solar project’s effect on endangered owls?
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul created the Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission specifically to override the objections of the towns and counties in its path. Critics say the agency exists to cut through red tape, sideline environmental review, and neutralize local pushback so projects move forward regardless of what residents want. That is silencing the communities the state claims to be protecting.
A Federal Reckoning Arrives..
By 2026, even New York’s own climate agenda had begun to buckle under the weight of its contradictions, forcing Governor Hochul into a March recalibration of the CLCPA that acknowledged the complaints of rural communities.
Then came a rebuke from Washington. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler jointly challenged New York’s approval of solar projects on productive farmland, criticizing the state for not applying federal standards in evaluating its farmland.
And here is the contradiction that should embarrass every official who signed off on the policy. Hochul announced a moratorium of up to a year on new data centers that draw more than 50 megawatts, which typically occupy 15 to 40 acres. Meanwhile, New York has already parked solar complexes on approximately 11,000 acres of federally certified prime farmland and wildlife habitats.
Centuries ago, South American civilizations offered land, crops, and sometimes human lives to appease gods they believed controlled the climate. New York has updated the ritual for a modern audience. It has built altars of solar farms and appointed a priesthood of bureaucrats who redact the evidence of their policies’ destruction.
A government convinced it can control the climate by conquering the countryside is not practicing science. It is imposing an ideology on a citizenry that pays the tribute in property and quality of life.
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New York does Germany.
Democrat/commies are pushing this crap so we KNOW IT'S NOT Chinese propaganda. The Chinese are ON the side of democrats.
Solar installations hasten loss of Virginia farmland..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4082677/posts
How many virtue points per solar panel?
They want to kill you
UN Agenda 21 , 2030 , Great Reset, ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
On the bright side, there will be plenty of jobs available when things are restored and the farmlands are cleaned up.
The funding for the cleanup will come from what we take back from the cabal. Think lots of zeroes.
No farms, no food.
The land is resting
Hochul in a hijab is also devastating
If you think about it farms are also solar energy collectors. The energy they use from the Sun powers our very bones. Seems like that use of solar energy is more important than making electricity, but maybe that’s just me .
Another point: since this madness is induced by the carbon scam consider this: 95% or more of the Carbon that ends up in the chemical compounds that a plant composed of came from the air itself. They literally pull that ‘evil’ Carbon Dioxide out of the air!
Holy crap, you’re Saudi’s bitch aren’t you? Do you have any idea how stupid this is? 8,000 acres? that’s about 12 square miles. In a state of 35,000 square miles. But the poow widduw bunnies! You do know that this is not those death rays thermal solar sites any more, right?
Drive from Buffalo into Genesee County and you will pass fields that have grown corn and soybeans for generations. Soon, thousands of those acres will be covered by steel and glass.
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Where solar panels cover land that once grew human food, that land can never again grow human food due to the heavy metals and other poisonous compounds shed by the panels, in storms and breakage, then absorbed into the soil.
No farms, no food.
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Humans will learn to eat solar panels ...
Ya know what? Solar is now cheaper than oil. And that’s not counting the hundreds of billions we spend keeping the middle east in order.
“No farms no food.” TWELVE SQUARE MILES. Out of 35,000. Ethanol production alone chews up thousands of miles of farmland.
My shocked face....😴😴😴😴
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