CANANDAIGUA — The Ontario County Landfill is scheduled to close seven years from now.
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Over the last several weeks, Greenidge Generation has been “greenwashing” its environmental record, publishing full-page ads, letters from supporters and to municipal governments. Some of them attack the environmental advocates who are working to inform the public, accusing them of spreading…
Town of Geneva Climate Smart Coordinator Jacob Fox answers your questions about recycling, composting, lawn care, etc.
WATERLOO — An additional seven people expressed support for the proposed Trelina Solar Energy Center during the second of two virtual public hearings held Tuesday.
CAYUTA, Schuyler County — The state’s two U.S. senators have asked the Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the potential environmental risks associated with a materials recovery and solid waste transfer station proposed for Schuyler County, near Seneca Lake.
WATERLOO — Several of those speaking at a Tuesday afternoon public hearing on the Trelina Solar Energy Center who would lease land to the Florida company favored the project.
WATERLOO — Joe Wukitsch has been raising questions and concerns about the Trelina Solar Energy Center in the two years since it was proposed.
Soft, blue-gray hues of twilight approach as frigid evening temperatures bottom out in single digits. The countryside exudes a hushed stillness as a blanketing white opalescent snow stands out in bold relief against somber, baron woodlands whose shadowless tree trunks resonate stark cocoa br…
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SENECA FALLS — Town officials and others reported an apparent eruption or “blowout” of a portion of the capped mound of buried trash on the northeast corner of the Seneca Meadows Inc. landfill Thursday.
WATERLOO — As it prepares to submit comments at a Feb. 16 hearing on the proposed Trelina Solar Energy Center, the Packwood Serven Pre-Emption Neighborhood Association is upset it was denied intervenor funds by the state Board of Electric Generation Siting and the Environment.
WATERLOO — Citing a desire for more time to review the environmental cleanup report, the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency has tabled acceptance of land at the former Seneca Army Depot.
In a matter of days, the Town of Torrey Planning Board will make a decision that could have ramifications for the Finger Lakes that go far beyond their town or county’s borders. They will be faced with deciding whether to heed the recommendation from Yates County and hundreds of concerned ci…
In order to get clean, pollution-free energy, the city of Canandaigua is moving away from reliance on fossil fuels by launching Gateway Community Power, a Community Choice Aggregation program that allows the city to pool local electricity demand with other Ontario County municipalities to pr…
SAVANNAH — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing to modify and toughen the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the town’s wastewater treatment plant on North Main Street.
WATERLOO — The Army has completed environmental cleanup of 11 more sites totaling 283 acres at the former Seneca Amy Depot in Romulus and Varick.
WATERLOO — Property owners near a proposed 80-megawatt solar farm have been denied $40,000 in intervenor funds by the state Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment.
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TORREY — The Yates County Planning Board is recommending the site plan for Greenidge Generation’s bitcoin and data center project be denied.
DRESDEN — Greenidge Generation CEO Dale Irwin is pushing back against critics of the company’s bitcoin and data mining project, saying the public should “pay no attention” to Facebook posts, press releases or editorials from groups opposing the company’s plans.
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MANCHESTER — Physical changes are in the works for the Hill Cumorah Pageant site on Route 21.
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GENEVA — Most of us don’t give much thought to what goes into our garbage can. From old takeout to dried-up leftovers that got pushed to the back of the fridge, Americans chuck plenty of uneaten food into the trash each day. That’s in addition to what’s left from the things we do eat, rangin…
SENECA FALLS — Seneca Meadows Inc. has not yet submitted responses to 36 questions and requests for more data on its application to expand its landfill operations.
CANANDAIGUA — Charging stations for electric vehicles could be scattered throughout Ontario County soon.
The history of civilization is the story of water technologies for cities and villages. Interlaken and all municipalities have followed a long road to providing clean potable water to citizens that began millennia ago by the Mayans, Romans and others. Each of these civilizations developed te…
Town of Geneva Climate Smart Coordinator Jacob Fox answers your questions about recycling, composting, lawn care, etc.
DRESDEN — Although the Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association shares concerns of those who have filed a lawsuit against the town of Torrey and Greenidge Generation LLC over the expansion of the Greenidge bitcoin mining project, the association is not a plaintiff to the litigation.
CANANDAIGUA — The Board of Supervisors’ planning and environmental quality committee could learn more about a plan for the future of solid-waste disposal in Ontario County when it meets Tuesday.
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DRESDEN — With a major bitcoin mining operation in the works at the Greenidge Generation plant, the Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes wants people to learn more about it.
SENECA FALLS — After years of considering options, the Town Board voted 4-1 Jan. 5 to install a new sewer line from the Kingdom Road pump station on the south side of West Bayard Street.
Many visitors who venture beyond the fence at Deer Haven Park have noted how serene and healing it is to tour. Such statements lead one to ponder, does this tranquility that renders such repose result from simply removing oneself from the hustle and bustle of daily life or is there something more?
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SENECA FALLS — The Town Board approved a motion asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation to deny Seneca Meadows Inc. the new and modified permits it needs to expand its Salcman Road landfill.
WATERLOO — Public comments on the proposed Trelina Solar Energy Center project on the west end of the town will be accepted in two virtual sessions Feb. 16.
WATERLOO — Sunshine is obviously a key ingredient for a major solar energy project proposed for the west end of the town.
SENECA FALLS — The proposed expansion of Seneca Meadows Landfill will be the center of attention at tonight’s Town Board meeting.
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GENEVA — Todd and Lindsay Powers sued the city of Geneva in 2018 over contamination of their Wadsworth Street property by the former Geneva Foundry.
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WATERLOO — A group of property owners who would be neighbors to the proposed 80-megawatt solar electric project in the west end of town have applied for $40,000 in intervenor funds from the state Public Service Commission.
GENEVA — Seneca Meadows landfill is less than 10 miles east of this Ontario County city — and Ward 4 Councilor Ken Camera considers that close enough for Geneva to formally oppose the landfill’s plans to expand.
SENECA FALLS — Seneca Meadows Inc., in partnership with the Waterloo Walmart, is once again recycling Christmas trees.
GENEVA — Decades ago, hundreds of oil and gas wells were drilled in upstate, including Ontario, Wayne, Seneca and Yates counties.
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SENECA FALLS — Before the state Department of Environmental Conservation considers Seneca Meadows’ landfill expansion application for review, the company must respond to 36 questions or requests for more information.
DRESDEN — Two local environmental groups are asking businesses, organizations and individuals to sign a letter urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to revoke two existing state Department of Environmental Conservation permits issued to Greenidge Generation, as well as denying a new one.
DRESDEN — Three environmental groups and 30 individuals are seeking an injunction to stop Greenidge Generation’s plan to construct four new buildings so it can expand its bitcoin mining operation.
SENECA FALLS — The Seneca Falls Environmental Action Committee is urging the state Department of Environmental Conservation to deny Seneca Meadows Inc.’s application to expand its Salcman Road landfill.
Town of Geneva Climate Smart Coordinator Jacob Fox answers your questions about recycling, composting, lawn care, etc.
GENEVA — Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association will host Part 2 of its “What’s In Our Lake?” webinar at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
PENN YAN — The Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes is asking businesses that may be impacted by Greenidge Generation’s planned expansion of bitcoin and data mining to join a coalition.
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SENECA FALLS — Fifty more acres and 15 additional years of operation. That’s what Seneca Meadows Inc., owner and operator of a landfill on the western border of Seneca Falls, is seeking.
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SENECA FALLS — Seneca Meadows Inc. has applied to the state Department of Environmental Conservation to expand its Salcman Road landfill.
