New Scotland a microcosm of fervent clean energy opposition in New York

ALBANY — “You are in the evacuation zone.”

That’s what appears in bold red letters on a mailer recently sent to residents within two miles of a proposed battery energy storage system in New Scotland.

Flames from a burning battery storage system shoot into the sky in the AI-generated image that’s plastered across the front of the alarming mailer, which includes text that warns: “If the wind is blowing your way, the toxic plume of forever chemicals and carcinogens from the conflagration, which will be impossible to extinguish, will forever damage the habitability of the place you live.”…

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