Tag: Greenidge Generation

It would be easy for a distracted governor to underestimate the importance of the environmental ruling her Department of Environmental Conservation will make later this week. So easy to issue marching … more: MANTIUS: Challenging times for Hochul, but DEC’s Greenidge decision could be significant moment

Gov. Kathy Hochul has a clear legal path to establish a moratorium on permits for cryptocurrency mining operations like Greenidge Generation’s plant in Dresden, according to a report issued today by Columbia Law School’s … more: Hochul could follow fracking precedent in setting crypto mining moratorium in New York

Yates County-based Greenidge Generation has announced it will pay more than $3 million in taxes for calendar-year 2021. That's about $2 million higher than the company paid in taxes for 2020, or … more: Greenidge Generation anticipates over $3 million in local, state taxes

Due to anticipated high demand for electricity because of the arctic temperatures followed by the overnight snowstorm, Greenidge Generation has announced it's curtailing its cryptocurrency mining operation in Dresden. In a statement, … more: With high expected demand for electricity, Greenidge curtails Dresden cryptocurrency mining

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has denied Greenidge Generation a permit extension to continue operating a coal ash pond left over from when its power plant on Seneca Lake in Dresden burned … more: EPA denies Greenidge permit extension to operate coal ash pond

In a fresh challenge to the state’s piecemeal approach to regulating the environmental risks of Greenidge Generation’s bitcoin mining operation, 10 environmental groups are seeking to block the renewal of a discharge … more: Pressure on DEC to deny permit renewal for Greenidge’s Lockwood Hills Coal Ash Landfill

The state has decided tentatively to renew and modify the discharge permit for an ash disposal landfill near the Greenidge Generation plant on Seneca Lake in the Yates County town of Torrey. … more: State tentatively agrees to extend and modify ash landfill permit in Torrey

Yates County Farm Bureau has come out in favor of Greenidge Generation's bitcoin mining operation on Seneca Lake. A resolution adopted at the organization's annual meeting says: “Yates County Farm Bureau strongly supports Greenidge … more: Yates County Farm Bureau backs Greenidge

A request for a preliminary injunction has been filed against Greenidge Generation in an effort to halt the planned expansion of their Dresden power plant for cryptocurrency mining. A release from Seneca … more: Environmental groups request injunction against Greenidge

Shares of Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. tumbled 15 percent Friday, the day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts asked the company to deliver details on the environmental impact of its Bitcoin mining … more: Shares of Greenidge tumble after Sen. Elizabeth Warren asks company’s CEO about Dresden plant’s emissions

Opponents of Greenidge Generation’s Bitcoin mining operation in Dresden urged Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration today to deny the facility’s application to renew its air emissions permit and to impose a statewide moratorium on proof-of-work … more: Bitcoin mining foes urge Hochul, DEC to deny Greenidge new air permit as hydro-powered crypto mining surges

On the final day of DEC public comment for Greenidge Generation's Title V Air Permit extension, over 5,000 comments were presented in opposition. Citizens, business owners, and elected officials convened in the … more: Concerned citizens, others gather in Geneva to call for denial of Greenidge Generation air permit

State legislators who represent the Finger Lakes split along party lines this year in voting on a bill (S528) that would amend the state Constitution to include a personal right to clean air and water. … more: Republican lawmakers from Finger Lakes unanimously oppose publicly popular constitutional guarantee of clean air and water

A decision to grant renewed air permits to the Greenidge Generation power plant in Dresden would “fly in the face of the mission statement” of the state Department of Environmental Conservation and … more: Critics, supporters of Greenidge bitcoin operation duel at DEC hearing on bid to renew air permits

The public comment period on the Greenidge Generation application has been extended. Originally set to expire on October 22, the deadline for written comment to the state Department of Environmental Conservation was … more: Greenidge Generation comment period to DEC extended to November 19

Activists and environmental groups are calling on New York to say 'No' to cryptocurrency. At a press conference this week hundreds called on Hochul and the state Department of Environmental Conservation to … more: Greenidge opposition swells, as calls for statewide ban on cryptocurrency mining get louder

An unprecedented number of toxic blooms spread across the Finger Lakes on the “dead calm” afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 6, in what was easily the most intense outbreak of the season, if … more: Seneca Lake suffers one of worst HAB outbreaks in recent years last week: Other lakes saw blooms too

Currently, the definition and use of the word true or truth is in question. Opposition groups cite wildly different facts or reports as the truth. It has become a national illness, … more: LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let’s hear the truth about Greenidge Generation

So far, Wall Street isn’t buying Greenidge Generation’s pitch to investors that it’s a “green” Bitcoin miner with a clear path to expand cryptocurrency operations at least ten-fold by 2025. Within its … more: Wall Street dumps shares of Greenidge Generation stock ahead of air emissions hearings on ‘carbon neutral’ bitcoin mining