What Hughes Energy Group Is Proposing

Positioned less than 2,000 ft. from the Schoharie Reservoir, and directly adjacent to wetlands and watershed tributaries uphill from the Schoharie Creek, the facility location threatens the drinking water supply for millions of New Yorkers.

This rendering, generated using Hughes Energy’s own specifications as outlined in their proposal to the DEC,
offers a sobering glimpse of how a facility of this scale could impact our community and our environment.

Hughes Energy misrepresents that this project would replace the existing Greene-Del Transfer station in location and scale. However, the two proposed buildings are actually positioned on an adjacent lot and at 115,000 sq. ft. and 7 stories high, the waste-to-fuel processing facility clearly dwarfs the existing station.

The entrance to the site is on a dangerous curve on a narrow stretch of State Route 23. Hughes Energy hopes to process 176,500 tons of waste per year – up to 50 diesel tractor trailer trucks each day. The small mountain roads leading to this site are not safe for the high volume of industrial traffic that this facility would generate. And despite Hughes Energy’s repeated claims, this volume of traffic would NOT be comparable to the traffic at the existing transfer station.

The site is located on a sensitive wetland that is home to multiple wildlife species vulnerable to the effects of human incursion and pollution including a bald eagle habitat.