Nonprofit calls for widespread wind farm review along St. Lawrence River

By Marcus Wolf
Watertown Daily Times
Published Thursday January 26,2017

CLAYTON — Save the River is asking state agencies assess the potential cumulative impacts of all proposed wind energy facilities along the St. Lawrence River.  Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Vanishing act: Cuomo assures Long Islanders they won’t see wind turbines

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES EDITORIAL

PUBLISHED THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017  

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo traveled to Long Island during his State of the State Road Show to promise a 90-megawatt offshore wind turbine project 30 miles away from the tip of Long Island in the Atlantic Ocean far from the line of sight of some of New York’s richest residents. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Chuck Schumer’s promises are worthless

New York Post Editorial Board

January 24,2017

Republicans just learned an important lesson about Chuck Schumer: Either he’s not as powerful as he thought he’d be as Senate minority leader, or he can’t be trusted. Or both.

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The Purpose Of The Military Is To Defend The Homeland, Not Promote Wind Turbines

“The business of America is business,” President Calvin Coolidge famously said. He might have added that the business of the nation’s military is to defend America—not the promotion of radical environmentalism. Continue reading via this link to Forbs.com

Audrey Zibelman, chair of the Public Service Commission headed down under

Audrey Zibelman, who has led New York's ambitious efforts to restructure the energy industry, is leaving her post as chair of the Public Service Commission for a job running Australia's electric and gas markets. Continue reading via this link to Syracuse.com

Cuomo proposes a new FOIL exemption to protect ‘critical infrastructure’

The bill says entities can hold a document or other piece of material back if its release “could endanger critical infrastructure or… Continue via this link to the Times union  

DOE subsidy programs and applied research should be ended

Downsizing the Federal Government

Energy Subsidies
Chris Edwards
December 15, 2016

The federal government has subsidized the energy sector for decades. Subsidies originally stemmed from atomic energy research efforts in the 1950s. Further subsidies were added in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s. And in recent decades, concerns about energy conservation and climate change have prompted the government to expand its efforts further.

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Off Long Island, Wind Power Tests the Waters

The Long Island Power Authority has reached an agreement with Deepwater Wind.

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Cuomo endorses Lake Ontario national marine sanctuary application

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lent his support to an effort to make part of Lake Ontario a national marine sanctuary. The goal is to preserve dozens of known and unknown historic shipwrecks in the southeastern portion of the lake for further study. Continue reading via this link to WRVO

Irish High Court Finds Wind Turbine Maker Liable for Noise Nuisance –

7 Irish Families to Get Millions in Punitive Damages

In a case before the Irish High Court, German wind turbine manufacturer, Enercon has just conceded liability in noise nuisance in a claim pursued by...

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NOVA

The Nuclear Option

Aired: 01/09/17 Rating: NR

How will we power the planet without wrecking the climate? Airing January 11, 2017 at 9 pm on PBS

 link to NOVA website
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Federal bill could prevent wind projects near military bases

By MARCUS WOLF & BRIAN MOLONGOSKI

Watertown Daily Times

Congress is reviewing a bill that aims to prohibit federal tax relief for wind energy projects located within 40 miles of an active military air base. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Denmark calls for tax on red meat because cattle flatulence 'is causing climate change'

By SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE

A government think tank said consumers were 'ethically obliged' to change their eating habits in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading via this link to the Daily Mail

Developer and biologist at odds about material review availability

By MARCUS WOLF

Watertown daily Times

December 30, 2016

Apex Clean Energy and a persistent opponent of its Galloo Island Wind project disagree about whether all of the pre-Article 10 application materials it shared with the state Department of Environmental Conservation should be available to the public. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Related letters ~

(1.) Schneider’s letter to the public service commision requesting procedural clarification concerning the release of reports submitted to the DEC, by Apex Clean energy.

(2.) Muscato tells the PSC that all participants in the A 10 Process are not created equal

(3.) Schneider letter to the PSC in response to Moscato's 12/28/2016 letter

Politician accuses Cuomo of attempting to bribe the Legislature

By Carl Campanile

New York Post

December 27, 2016 | 1:50pm

A veteran Democratic lawmaker is accusing Gov. Cuomo of attempted “bribery”

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Former biologist demands most recent Galloo Island studies be made available

By MARCUS WOLF

Watertown Daily Times

Tuesday December 27, 2016

A thorn in the side of the Galloo Island Wind project wants its developer to submit the most recent avian mortality studies to all registered parties and the general public, not just the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

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Link here to read Clif Schneider’s  most recent letter to the public service commision requesting procedural clarification concerning the release of reports submitted to the DEC, by Apex Clean energy.

Link here to post your own comment on the Galloo project: