NY’s Uneven Treatment of Wind Energy vs. Natural Gas Fracking

This is so outrageous we don't even have words for it. New York State's highest court, with its judges appointed by Gov. Cuomo, ruled in 2014 that local municipal "home rule" laws to block fracking are just fine (see Shale Drilling in NY is Over – High Court Upholds Town Bans). Yet another group of Cuomo appointees--who sit on the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment--have just ruled that a NY town’s recently enacted wind law was passed too late in the process, so its conditions do not apply to the current wind project developer. This is NOT justice. THIS IS WRONG. We have some advice for other Upstate NY towns (important advice) based on this miscarriage of justice. Please see our update at the bottom about the home rule issue.

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