Tag: Greenidge Generation

This week on The Debrief Peter Mantius, founder of The Water Front, whose reporting is featured on FingerLakes1.com, joins Josh Durso to discuss a number of important, pressing political and environmental issues that … more: THE DEBRIEF: Discussing CAFO regulation, HABs, and politics of Greenidge (podcast)

Permits granted to Greenidge Generation LLC for the withdrawal and discharge of water by its power plant in Dresden were properly issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, a Yates County … more: Kocher rules that Greenidge permits were issued properly by DEC

A pair of court rulings expected by yearend are likely to determine whether the Cuomo Administration broke the law when it fast-tracked permits to restart the Greenidge Generation power station. The decades-old plant … more: Cuomo administration rushed Greenidge’s restart — but was it legal?

Since its restart in the Spring of 2017, the Greenidge Generation power station has been skirting federal law governing its use of cooling waters drawn from Seneca Lake. The Clean Water Act requires … more: Greenidge gets green light, as well as controversial 5-year extension

Toxins generated by blue-green algal blooms in Lake Canandaigua have infected the public drinking water in the Village of Rushville, which draws its raw water from the lake about four miles to … more: Toxins from algae bloom on Canandaigua Lake force drinking ban in Rushville

When the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced that they would be slashing a proposal by a Houston-based energy company, many in the region called it a 'win'. That proposal … more: INSIDE THE FLX: Environmental issues take center stage in the Finger Lakes (podcast)

Gas Free Seneca was formed eight years ago to fight a proposal by a Texas company to store liquid propane and butane in underground, abandoned salt caverns on the southwest side of … more: Gas Free Seneca joins Seneca Lake Guardian, focuses on incinerator

An affiliate of the politically-connected Blackstone Group seeks to convert one of the two coal-fired units at its Cayuga Lake power plant to burn natural gas, hauled in by truck. The plant, … more: MANTIUS: Cuomo’s conflicting interests collide over plan for Cayuga plant

Along the waterfront near Dresden, residents don’t dare drink their tap water, which is drawn directly from one of the most polluted sections of Seneca Lake. Their water is being fouled by … more: MANTIUS: Keuka Outlet fouls drinking water, fuels toxic algae

A coal ash landfill next to the Greenidge Generation power plant continues to discharge heavy metals into the Keuka Outlet and local groundwater more than three years after it formally committed to a … more: Restart of Greenidge Power Plant hinged on DEC downplaying toxic landfill

On Sept. 11, 2017, the state Department of Environmental Conservation issued Greenidge Generation water withdrawal and State Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits. The DEC did so without requiring the plant to install … more: Arguments against Greenidge water permits set for May 22 in Penn Yan