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More than 200 protesters from around Western New York gathered in Sunset Bay on a Saturday afternoon in October 2019 to express their worries and concerns about wind turbines being placed in the Great Lakes waters.
“We’ve got to get on the bandwagon with this and stay on the bandwagon because this reared its ugly head 10 years ago, and now it’s back again,” said Erie County Legislator John Mills on that day. “Do not disturb our freshwater, period. It’s really simple.”
State Sen. George Borrello has never forgotten that day or the messages heard at the rally. On Tuesday, he introduced legislation to place a moratorium on the building or placing of permanent or semi-permanent wind turbines in bodies of freshwater in New York state. “I drafted this legislation to protect our freshwater lakes from becoming industrialized by massive wind turbines,” he said. “Our greatest natural and environmental resource is our freshwater lakes. These lak
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