SOS/Lighthouse Wind in the News:
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2019
• 4/11/19 Manhattan Institute
Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Robert Bryce
“All-renewable scenarios rely on the vacant-land myth – the faulty notion that there’s endless amounts of unused, uncared-for land out there in flyover county that’s ready and waiting to be covered with forests of renewable-energy stuff. The truth is quite different. Rural communities – even entire states – are resisting or rejecting wind, solar, and high-voltage transmission projects and that opposition is already slowing deployment of new renewable capacity in the US, Canada, and Europe. … You won’t read about it in the New York Times, but the towns of Yates and Somerset as well as three upstate New York counties – Erie, Orleans, and Niagara – have spent the past three years fighting the proposed 200-megawatt Lighthouse Wind project, which aims to put dozens of wind turbines near the shores of Lake Ontario.”
• 2/13/19 Investigative Post
Wind Turbines Generating Conflict
Sara Jerving
Despite her embrace of renewable energy, Atwater leads a group fighting to prevent a Virginia-based company from placing 47 wind turbines across the southern shore of Lake Ontario in her community and the neighboring Town of Yates.
• 1/29/19 City Journal
https://www.city-journal.org/cuomo-green-new-deal-wind-energy-new-york
2018
• 10/3/2018 Niagara Gazette
https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/wind-farm-design-calls-for-turbines/article_66f5ece4-c64e-51f8-b85a-a907a55419bc.html
• 10/2/2018 Lockport Sun & Journal
https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/wind-farm-design-calls-for-turbines/article_e5edc661-0559-5cd4-b419-21583d5449b7.html
• 9/21/2018 Watertown Daily Times
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/blogs10/on-the-road-to-truthiness-20180921
• 7/24/2018 WHEC Channel 10 Rochester
https://www.whec.com/news/controversial-wind-turbine-project/5002270/
• 7/9/2018 Buffalo News
https://buffalonews.com/2018/07/29/no-end-in-sight-for-somerset-wind-power-battle/
• 6/27/2018 WGRZ Channel 2
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/costs-rise-for-somerset-fight-on-wind-turbines/71-568332617
• 5/2/2018 WBEN 930 AM
http://www.wben.com/media/audio-channel/kate-kremer-save-ontario-shores
http://www.wben.com/articles/argument-against-wind-turbines
• 3/5/2018 WBFO 88.7
http://news.wbfo.org/post/power-coalition-forms-oppose-lake-ontario-wind-turbines
• 2/28/2018 Rochester City Newspaper
https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/power-struggle/Content?oid=5633343
• 2/26/2018 Buffalo News
http://buffalonews.com/2018/02/26/environmental-coalition-formed-to-oppose-proposed-wind-turbines-near-lake-ontario/
• 2/22/2018 Lockport Sun & Journal
https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/power-coalition-emerges-to-oppose-lighthouse-wind/article_13734fa1-41dc-580d-970b-e65a93ea1ef0.html

2017
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6/26/2017
Niagara Gazette
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/wind-farm-opposition-puts-up-billboards/article_615d836d-e81a-5c14-b1ca-dd44b305e5f2.html -
2/27/2017
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bryce-backlash-against-wind-energy-20170227-story.html -
1/26/2017
NY Senate.gov
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/robert-g-ortt/ortt-introduces-legislation-ban-wind-turbines-falls-air-base -
1/18/2017
Watertown Daily News
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/navy-study-of-wind-projects-in-texas-wielded-by-opponents-of-new-york-turbine-development-20170118?gallerydate=2017-02-01Z
2016
- 12/12/2016
WIVB Channel 4
http://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/plans-for-wind-turbines-in-niagara-orleans-counties-develop-as-opposition-grows_20180314093252102/1043000137 - 11/30/2016
Niagara Frontier Publications
https://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2016/11/30/126815/collins-introduces-legislation-to-blow-back-wind-turbines - 11/27/2016
Times Union
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Wind-power-debate-stirs-up-towns-10639060.php - 11/27/2016
The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/27/new-york-towns-fight-wind-turbines/ - 11/9/2016
Rochester City Newspaper
http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/new-wind-old-fights/Content?oid=2917348 - 11/2/2016
Lockport Sun & Journal
http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/ortt-collins-speak-against-wind-turbines/article_24f5319b-457d-5bb0-916a-2e3fb5060b48.html - 11/1/2016
Niagara Gazette
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/lobbyists-called-into-question-during-wind-turbine-protest/article_ee265105-e9cc-53b5-909b-f04ca921bd3a.html - 11/1/2016
WBFO 88.7 Buffalo
http://news.wbfo.org/post/opponents-proposed-wind-turbines-claim-conflict-interest-lobbying-firm - 8/26/2016
Politicohttp://www.politico.com/states/new-york/tipsheets/politico-new-york-energy/2016/08/wind-fight-signals-challenges-for-clean-energy-standard-004971 - 8/25/2016
WIVB Channel 4
http://wivb.com/2016/08/25/hundreds-protest-unwanted-energy-in-the-town-of-somerset/ - 7/30/2016
Buffalo News
http://buffalonews.com/2016/07/30/winds-of-discontent-blow-over-lake-ontario-towns-eyed-for-turbines/ - 4/23/2016
Lockport Sun & Journal
http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/apex-tactics-rapped-by-save-ontario-shores/article_c59f6d63-0710-5430-8fad-02228d439d26.html - 4/19/2016
Watertown Daily News
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/bdn06/apex-clean-energys-thank-you-letter-20160419 - 3/28/2016
NY Post
http://nypost.com/2016/03/28/sucking-wind-in-the-fight-for-renewable-energy/
2015
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12/9/2015
Time Warner Cable News
https://www.governmentinvestigationsattorneys.com/single-post/2015/12/09/Public-hears-concerns-about-proposed-turbine-project-Vacco-representing-town-of-Somerset -
12/4/2015
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/environment/2015/12/04/big-shoreline-wind-project/76773432/ -
9/16/2015
Time Warner Cable News
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2015/09/16/wind-turbine-debate-divides-orleans-county-town.html
2014 - Pre SOS
- 12/21/14
Energy firm to hold open house on proposed Somerset wind farm.
He said it is too early to say how many turbines are planned or where they would be located, but with turbines capable of producing 2.75 to 3.3 megawatts of energy apiece, he said a rough estimate would be 67 turbines. - 12/9/14
Apex makes public outreach for wind project in Yates, Somerset - 10/14/14
Outlines of Orleans-Niagara wind farm aired
Officials from Apex Clean Energy are introducing themselves and broad outlines of plans for a 200-megawatt wind farm in rural sections the northwest corner of Yates and neighboring Somerset.