The Cambria Town Board has determined to attraction “one extra time†to attempt to cease the development of the Bear Ridge Solar Project, which has been granted a allow to take a seat in New York State.
Carmen A. Vacco of Lippes Mathius LLP will characterize town within the attraction to the state Court of Appeals.
The authorized motion, accepted by a unanimous vote of the board, follows the Appellate Division-Fourth Judicial Department’s latest denial of town’s attraction of a choice by the state Office of Renewable Energy Siting. to waive Cambria’s “occasion standing” and tackle points raised by the city previous to ORES granting a siting allow to Cypress Creek Renewables LLC.
Town supervisor Jon MacSwan mentioned the Court of Appeals resolution was fast and decisive; The metropolis can safe occasion standing, giving it the means to make authorized arguments that shield features of the native photo voltaic legislation, or not.
ORES beforehand rejected the native legislation, citing the State Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act and objectives to decrease fossil gas emissions statewide. The State Appellate Division upheld the ORES willpower on June 14, when it dismissed town’s attraction.
The metropolis is making a ultimate attraction due to the sum of money it has already invested in preventing ORES and Cypress Creek Renewables, in keeping with MacSwan.
MacSwan mentioned he did not know the precise tab till now. The Union-Sun & Journal beforehand reported that, in keeping with city information, as of Jan. 1, the city had paid roughly $99,000 in authorized and engineering charges to Lippes Mathias LLP and its engineering agency, Wendel. About $68,500 of that complete was coated by intervenor funds supplied by ORES.Â
The Bear Ridge Solar Project is a proposed 88-megawatt utility unfold over 900 acres in Cambria and close by Pendleton.
Keith Silliman, director of compliance at Cypress Creek Renewables, mentioned there have been “no adjustments” to Bear Ridge Solar’s plan and work on compliance plans continues forward of the utility’s development.