At its meeting last night, the Common Council unanimously passed a resolution regarding the proposed Shepherd's Run Solar Farm to be sited on 255 acres of farmland in Craryville. Before voting on the resolution, the Council was briefed by Jeanne Mettler, supervisor for the Town of Copake.
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Mettler explained that the proposed project is in the Taghkanic Creek Watershed, the source of Hudson's water. The Town of Copake, where the solar project would be sited, opposes the project as proposed and has offered to work with Hecate Energy, the group planning to build the solar farm, to come up with a better plan. The towns of Claverack, Hillsdale, and Taghkanic have passed resolutions similar to the one passed by the Council on Tuesday, which "urges the New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting to continue to deem the application of Hecate Energy . . . incomplete unless and until Hecate can provide evidence that the construction of Shepherd's Run and, once constructed, the presence of Shepherd's Run will not negatively impact the Taghkanic Creek Watershed, or the water quality in the City of Hudson or any Columbia County town." The resolution further urges the Columbia County Board of Supervisors to pass a similar resolution with the goal of protecting the Taghkanic Creek Watershed.
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The Hudson Common Council has done a lot of boneheaded and pointless stuff over the past 25 years, but this really takes the cake for boneheaded pointlessness.
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