Author: Michael Duttweiler

Thanks to the efforts of many residents, organizations, and our governor and representatives in NYS, the Bell Station land will not be auctioned. Instead it looks as if the Finger Lakes Land Trust, working with the DEC, will be able to save the land for public rather than private use.

Community Choice Aggregation Update: September 1, 2021 from Rod Howe (Town of Ithaca), Gay Nicholson (Sustainable Tompkins) and Luis Aguirre-Torres (City of Ithaca) The Park Foundation awarded the “Community Choice Aggregation in Tompkins County: Developing a Path Forward” proposal $50,000 (as opposed to the $72,000 request). This news along with the following additional inputs led to a series of summer...

An excellent article on the Greenidge plant (southeast of Rochester)and bitcoins.  The processing of bitcoin transactions is very energy intensive and is done at this plant  “behind the meter” to avoid the regulations that cover normal power plants.  It is useful to read the whole article to get a feeling for how bad this is with regard to the use...