A push to build battery storage facilities across New York is now playing out in the town of New Scotland, where residents are raising both safety concerns and questions about a town board member’s ties to the land.
The company New Leaf Energy wants to build a battery storage facility in the neighborhood, made up of rows of shipping-container-sized units packed with lithium batteries.
“When I first heard about this, I thought that there was no way that something like this could happen on my road,” said Olivia D’Angelo, a New Scotland resident…