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"But these solar complexes bring jobs to our towns!" This is one of the biggest lies I have seen peddled by foreign wind and solar developers in New York State. For Fort Edward Solar, right inside of the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) docket, it shows a 100MW solar complex will create TWO FULL TIME JOBS, and one part-time job! That's IT! These foreign developers LIE to our news boasting the temporary jobs required to install these renewable energy experiments. New York State allows them to lie because ORES earns money off of each MW it rubber-stamps away to corporations out of Spain and Canada. As Montgomery County detailed in an economic report, these complexes destroy all local industries, including agriculture, tourism, agrotourism, and retail. The amount of jobs and economic stability that is locally LOST for these renewable complexes far outweighs the 2.5 jobs that each complex creates. And the best thing of all? The "jobs" these complexes create temporarily for 12-months while the panels are driven into our prime farmland? They are staffed by specialized labor that is brought in from out of town, out of state, and even out of country. I have visited over 20 solar complexes in Upstate New York. Not ONE has a person onsite or monitoring the facility. Not ONE has a person clearing the panels of snow or mowing the grass below the arrays. That's why they need 10-foot tall chainlink fencing around these ecological detention centers. They don't plan on personally monitoring them or spending money on any more than TWO people who annually check-in on the complex. The result is catastrophic for wildlife. It's also catastrophic for what's left of our small-town rural villages across the US. It has to stop.