GOLDEN CRESCENT AND 1000 ISLAND NEWS

  In January, The Business Council joined nearly 30 other industry groups, local chambers, developers and labor representatives in petitioning the Public Service Commission to reconsider New York’s renewable energy timetable. The coalition represents diverse interests from across the state, all of which are concerned with assuring safe, adequate and affordable electricity to serve New York’s businesses and customers. More Our request is as straightforward as it is urgent. New York is heading to significant reliability issues, and policymakers and consumers alike are raising concerns about increased power costs.   New York has set some of the most ambitious clean energy goals in the nation: 70% renewable electricity by 2030 and a zero-emissions grid by 2040, as mandated by the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, adopted in 2019.   But more than halfway to 2030, New York is little closer to meeting the CLCPA’s renewable energy target than when the law took...

  By   Sonya Ellison , drone photo by Josh Rampulla   The Town of Fremont NY hired Wisniewski Law and filed an Article 78 petition challenging the NYS Board on Electric and Baron Winds LLC regarding the Baron Winds farm in Steuben County NY. The installation of wind turbines has resulted in a “exceptional” number of complaints about the impacts of wind turbine sickness. The petition was filed in late 2025 and the  court ruled in favor of the NYS Board of Electric  today, February 11, 2026, in the Appellate Court, 4th Department.   Fremont residents like Tom Flansburg and his partner, Mary McManus say their health has been affected by wind turbine sickness in the Village of Fremont since late December, when the newly-built Baron Winds LLC wind farm became operational. The Baron Winds project in Fremont NY consists of 26 turbines, Across 12500 acres, Maximum capacity is 117megawatts -Americas.RWE.com   “That’s when we’d start noticing these symptoms….” s...

  Feb 7, 2026     Utility companies looking to add every possible electron to the electric grid will not have the full backing of the Trump administration, as  Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States needs reliable energy, not wind and solar power.   Utility trade groups , large tech firms, and major manufacturers, as well as Republican and Democratic lawmakers, have called for the Trump administration to adopt an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, which would include renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, to meet the growing demand brought on by artificial intelligence and address soaring  electricity  prices. Recomm   Wright pushed back on industry and Capitol Hill messaging on Friday during a press conference at the Energy Department’s headquarters, the focus should instead be on demand.  “When I hear politicians say, ‘We just added more electrons on the grid,’ no, we don’t,” Wright said. Wr...

  Hope you can join us for a meeting with updates on our fight against wind turbines in Lake Erie: Wednesday, February 25th Lake Shore library S-4857 Lake Shore Road (Route 5) Hamburg, NY  14075 6:00 - 7:30 PM Guest speaker Jesse Prieto from Congressman NIck Langworthy office.   Please join us!  

  We’re told New York is in crisis, an energy utility debt crisis.   In truth, we’ve been in one since the pandemic, only instead of getting better now that we’re supposedly back to normal it is getting worse. In growing numbers, ordinary New Yorkers can’t afford their utility bills. Here in upstate, National Grid is the major utility server and is currently showing 234,000 residential customers in arrears by at least 60 days. That’s $309 million unpaid. All the other utilities, from Con Ed to Rochester Gas and Electric, are showing comparable numbers.   We’re in record arrears territory, and growing. That’s bad news on its face, and fodder for why as a state we continue to hemorrhage population. But worse, it is hard to see the cost trend flatten or drop as we sail into our energy using future, no matter what our governor legislatively proposes in terms of keeping our energy costs affordable. All the available factors point to bigger and bigger energy bills for decades t...

  Takeaways   1.         Donald Trump expressed his dislike of wind power in a speech in Davos, saying countries with more windmills lose money and do worse. 2.         The UK government has awarded subsidy agreements to supply a record amount of offshore wind power, with critics questioning whether the price set by the auction is good value for money. 3.         Despite potential short-term price hikes, analyses suggest that new wind capacity will come at no additional cost to billpayers and may even reduce electricity bills in the long term by reducing reliance on imported gas. Donald Trump’s hatred of wind power continues. In a speech in Davos last week that managed to upset almost everyone, the US president still found time to get in a few trademark digs at renewable energy. “There are windmills all over Europe… and they are losers,” he said, in a strange anthropomorphism. “One thing ...