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Public Service Commission Trying To Shut Down Energy Plant At Fort Drum

March 15, 2023

Watertown area news outlets have been reporting that U.S. Senator Kirsten Gililbrand has been trying to prevent a biomass energy plant which operates inside of the base at Fort Drum, from being shut down, in several days. The reason it’s being shut down, according to Watertown TV Station WWNY, is because the New York State Public Service Commission does not consider biomass, to be clean energy. “We had as many Democrats on both sides, Senate and Assembly, and it didn’t come out. It’s another example of these clean energy people not understanding that biomass is clean energy,” said Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush, telling that to WWNY in December.

Gillibrand is speaking with the governor and state legislative leaders in Albany about why Fort Drum should not kick out a company called Re-Energy, from the military base there. “I don’t think these (Albany) politicians were briefed on the national sercurity reasons (not to shut it down),” Gillibrand said this morning in press conference. “I think they were just talked to by the company (Re-Energy) that was providing the service. I sit on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, and the impportance of having Fort Drum off the grid entirely, if neccesary, is a huge asset for Fort Drum. Just imagine a cyber attack by our adversary and having a command center like Fort Drum being fully up and running,” Gillibrand said. “We need a command center that can be fully operational and we already have that. So to deny that to New York is a mistake.”


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