To The Reader’s Forum:

It is not clean energy!

They are not wind farms or solar farms! They are industrial wind factories! Industrial solar factories! They destroy the field and forests of real farms.

They destroy our rural communities, they destroy our quality of life and expose the grid to base load failures. Wind and solar increase our energy costs and the cost of all commodities. There are predictions of a quadrupling of energy costs and brown outs and black outs due to unreliable “renewables.” The grid is constrained by bottlenecks, in need of repair — presently losing 30% of power produced because of faulty infrastructure.

The carbon footprint from mining, manufacturing, transportation, construction, cement use and end of life disposal of used components is not acceptable. China dependence and supply chain issues further jeopardize energy security. It is unacceptable for New York state’s agenda-driven politicians to continue energy policies destructive to the environment and the economy.

A group of five New York towns have filed a lawsuit against Governor Hochul and ORES calling for a repeal of “renewable” fast track regulations contained in the Office of Renewable Energy Siting. State Senator George Borrello regarding the Copake v. ORES lawsuit: In addition to bypassing DEC due diligence and allowing for the destruction of farmland, natural habitats and the slaughter of protected and endangered animals, ORES’ regulations bypass and silence local governments and the people who have to live with fallout of this industrialization of our beautiful rural areas. This unlawful and unethical government overreach must be stricken down. This lawsuit is an important step toward that goal.”

Efforts on our behalf are also being made by responsible state senators such as Joseph Griffo, who has proposed S.9546, which calls for a repeal of the ORES wind and solar fast track regulations. As The Post-Journal editors recently stated, we need “an island of rationality in a stormy sea of state energy policy that is too often chaotic and ill-thought.”

Follow the money.

David “Skip” Axelson

Frewsburg