No Fracked Gas for Bitcoin Mining!

Governor Hochul faces a deadline of June 30 to deny the air quality permit for a fracked gas power plant in the Finger Lakes being used for Bitcoin mining.

A Bitcoin-mining operator repowered the Greenidge power plant with fracked gas — using the formerly mothballed plant to power its energy-intensive cryptocurrency operations. That means drastically more air and water pollution for the local community and terrible impacts for our climate.

The Hochul administration has until the end of the month to decide whether to issue a crucial air permit for Greenidge.

Urge Governor Hochul and the Department of Environmental Conservation to strike a blow against fossil fuels and deny the Greenidge fracked gas power plant's air permit!

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Dear Governor Hochul and Dept. of Environmental Conservation,

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I urge you to deny the Title V Air Permit for the Greenidge Station in Dresden. Put simply, this facility does not comply with the state's landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). We cannot hit the emissions reduction goals mandated by law if we allow dirty, shuttered power plants to come back online.

Greenidge's impact on the climate is obvious. Indeed, DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has already stated, "Greenidge has not shown compliance with New York's climate law." We cannot add any new fossil fuel power plants to the state, full stop. Allowing a fracked gas power plant to operate solely to power a Bitcoin mining operation that provides essentially no benefits to the public would be appalling.

We must not allow the crytpomining industry to threaten the state's progress in reducing emissions. Greenidge is likely to become the tip of a very large iceberg if allowed to stay in operation. Bitcoin mining alone already uses more electricity than the entire country of Ireland. Indeed, the industry is already targeting other mothballed fossil fuel power plants across the state of New York.

Without state action, facilities like Greenidge threaten to destroy hard-won progress in shutting down the dirtiest power plants across the state.

I urge you to deny the Title V Air permit for the Greenidge fracked gas power plant by the June 30 deadline.

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