ENDWELL, NY (WSKG) — Opponents of the proposed expansion of the Greenidge Generation plant and bitcoin mining facility gathered outside the Town of Torrey Planning Board meeting on Monday, but the body postponed consideration of the matter to April.
Environmentally focused advocacy groups are opposing the expansion of a electricity generation facility and bitcoin mining operation along Seneca Lake just outside the Town of Dresden. (Vaughn Golden/WSKG)
Planning Board Chair David Granzin said the board would hold a special meeting to consider the Greenidge expansion on April 26. It’s unclear why the matter was postponed for consideration.
The Greenidge facility, located just outside the Village of Dresden, utilizes Seneca Lake and a neighboring tributary for cooling water. The former coal-powered electricity plant switched to natural gas, but recently began to use excess energy it generates to mine bitcoin. With the expansion, it seeks to operate at its full generation capacity and extend the computing power of its bitcoin miners. The expansion would significantly increase the amount of lakewater used to cool the plant and, in turn, increase the amount of hot water returned to the lake.
Opponents of the plant, including representatives from Seneca Lake Guardian and several other vocal environmentally-focused groups from the Finger Lakes, demonstrated outside the meeting.
“When a predatory company comes in like this and tries to threaten that, we have to speak out,” Yvonne Taylor, Co-Founder and Vice President, Gas Free Seneca, and organizer of Monday’s protest said.
Taylor was one of a few dozen protestors who stood outside the meeting holding signs as members of the planning board entered the building, though most chose not to go inside. The planning board did not live stream the meeting.
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