August 6, 2025

The PSC hearings are over, but the battle continues. Please continue to spread the word and gather more signatures. We need to send a message to the politicians that supposedly represent us and every signature helps!

We stopped the batteries once, but the Propel project invites the batteries back! DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN! If you signed a petition before, it was probably for the battery project. We need you to sign this one too!

FYI-Donations @ Change.org DO NOT support community efforts related to the proposed projects. If you want to donate to the legal and engineering defense please go to gofundme.com and search for  'Battle Against Costly-Dangerous Hi-Voltage Cables - Nassau' and THANK YOU!

As residents of Long Island, directly impacted by energy projects that put resident and community health and safety at risk, I am writing to you to express that I oppose these projects and call on the State, its agencies and officials to put an end to these projects.

In July 2025, the PSC cancelled the project to bring offshore wind to NYC with a new transmission project. The PSC could not 'in good conscience' have NY ratepayers shoulder costs and risks for projects that will not move forward. 

We now call on the PSC to cancel the Propel Project to bring  offshore wind to Long Island for the same reasons.  Tax payers and rate payers should not have to bear the cost or risks associated with intermittent unreliable, non-environmentally friendly, wind energy sources or their associated infrastructure that is currently contemplated for Long Island.

Project Propel stated in their public notice that their project is designed to transport offshore wind to upstate NY. With Empire 2 windmill project and the Project Juno transmission project now cancelled, there are no wind projects that can connect to the Propel project in any reasonable timeframe. Further, the project analysis from the NYISO’s own Market Monitor Unit (Potomac Economics) stated that this project was not cost effective and should not proceed. 

Communities like Glen Head/Glenwood Landing are being disproportionately impacted by the convergence of 3 high voltage EMF emitting cables, a massive new substation and cables in our Harbor. Other communities such as Oceanside, Uniondale, Garden City, Hicksville, Bethpage, Jericho, Syosset, East Hills, Port Washington, Manhasset and Mineola will also be burdened with high voltage EMF emitting cables. Nassau County communities should not be collateral damage for economically questionable projects related to costly wind energy that is not moving forward. 

Wind energy sources were recently contracted by NYS at over 4x what we currently pay and that's before you add in the cost of cables and required battery storage. This is not watching out for the public.  We need affordable, reliable and deployable energy sources. What we don’t need is intermittent and expensive energy being forced on us by government bureaucrats. Long Island, in fact, enjoys excess electric generating capacity even on peak days. The primary problem with our grid, per the LI PPTN, is that it curtails wind energy. 

If the LI grid infrastructure is so old and tired, then we should retool the LI grid before we think about making LI an electricity superhighway to transport wind power to upstate NY. It is far more cost effective to retool our existing facilities, and provide users with reliable, deployable sources. 

Finally, LI communities should not be destroyed, small businesses should not be jeopardized, nor should residents have to bear the long-term health and safety risks associated with these projects, including understudied impacts of constant EMF exposure and the need for dangerous Lithium Battery Storage facilities to make intermittent power usable (e.g. Moss Landing's contamination fallout & 8sq mile evacuation zone). There are no long-term health studies showing any of this is environmentally sound and safe from cradle to grave and we don't' want to be the subjects of such a study. 

While we all want a better future, renewable promises can't be at the expense of our health and safety. Control should stay local – its local communities and their local town governments that know their environments best.  We don’t want the first solution, we want the best cost effective reliable solution that considers and minimizes health and safety impacts to residential communities and human lives long term, and wind energy and all its related infrastructure is clearly not the best solution.

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