Group BLOCKED from seeing full
#environmental impact report on
#solar farm drafts its own, only to have it REJECTED.
A solar developer in New York REDACTED information about its project on
#endangered #species, so a nonprofit commissioned its own assessment.
What the report now
**the developer is fighting to keep it out of the record**
The American Land Rescue Fund (
#ALRF) is concerned about the impact of a solar project on a critical
#bird habitat in upstate New York.
It filed
#FOIA requests for the records, to get unredacted versions of the environmental assessments.
The company argued that the information was proprietary and could be legally WITHHELD from the public.
After exhausting all other avenues, Alex Fasulo, president of the ALRF, decided to hire independent ecologists to perform an assessment of the project’s impacts. The report the ecologists produced shocked her.
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