Illinois-based developer, Hecate Energy, proposes to build a 267-acre, 42MW utility scale solar facility in the rural Town of Copake, New York in eastern Columbia County. Hecate targeted the residential hamlet of Craryville for its open land tracts near an existing transmission infrastructure. The Project’s siting and scale is all wrong for our small rural community, threatening the natural environment, quality of life, and livelihoods.

Craryville is an historic farming community on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people. The Project threatens five National Register eligible properties and their related rural historic landscapes that are part of a town wide heritage ecosystem. These at-risk properties are:

• Niver Farm, c.1850, State Route 23

• Sir William Farm, c.1860, County Route 7

• Craryville Train Depot Complex, c.1870, State Route 23 at County Route 7

• North Copake Cemetery, 1750-1819, State Rte 23

• Farmhouse, c.1900, County Route 7