On March 22nd, Democrat Senator Joseph Addabbo met with constituents to debate group considerations. Java with Joe at espresso outlets like “Let’s Do Brunch” supply residents an opportunity to voice neighborhood considerations together with the slated Battery Storage Facility throughout from PS 128 in Queens.
Battery Storage Facility Hazard
In New York Metropolis, builders see Americans as expendable nuisances. Corporations and a few politicians imagine constituents can vote away the Rights of others by blindly passing proposals like “The Metropolis of Sure.” However residents don’t surrender their constitutional Rights regardless of NYC’s approval to place a hazardous Battery Storage Facility, fire-bomb and poisonous fumes, subsequent to residential properties and throughout from Elementary faculties.
Whenever you open a grocery retailer or pizza parlor, you do not want to elucidate the potential for distinctive fires that can’t be extinguished, an evacuation route within the occasion of a catastrophe, flood and drainage security concerns, poisonous fumes, and the like. These risks are the definition of hazards to not solely the Elementary Faculty throughout the road however the surrounding neighborhoods for miles.
Senator Joseph Addabbo understands the absurdity that you just can’t market one thing that comes with the phrases “Potential Hazard.” He said, “Rational thought should prevail.” And he has entered the battle introducing:
Senate Invoice S7197B
(Abstract)
Directs the division of public service to promulgate guidelines, laws and mannequin insurance policies relating to setback necessities for the siting of battery vitality storage methods; requires minimal setback necessities for business vitality storage methods, with a capability of three megawatts or higher, of at least seven hundred fifty ft from residential property and at least 300 ft from residential property situated in a metropolis with a inhabitants of 1 million or extra inhabitants; requires public hearings previous to the approval of an software for a allow for such methods.
https://www.nysenate.gov/laws/payments/2025/S7197/modification/B
NOTE: Jennifer McCall (Kendall County, TX Commissioner Precinct 1) knowledgeable me they used the 2021 Worldwide Hearth Code and the 2024 NFPA 855, to discourage amenities by forcing firms to conform. See the boernestar.com report.
