While ORES sites renewable energy complexes on sensitive habitats, grasslands, and wetlands, they're also ignoring another group of people that have tended to the land in this country longer than we have.

Take Horseshoe Solar in Rush, New York as a prime example of ORES steamrolling the Seneca Nation of Indians, despite their attempts to protest and inform the office of the sensitive areas around the Genesee River where Invenergy is now Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) UNDER the river.

The Seneca Nation of Indians and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation of Indians have protested Horseshoe Solar since the beginning.

They filed countless reports and requests to the NYS Office of Historical Preservation (SHPO). All were ignored.

In the 1960s, Seneca graves were found and 46 bodies were exhumed; the skeletal remains and recovered burial materials are at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Those graves were found less than 2 feet under the surface.

Invenergy used HDD to go under this portion of land.

A carefully completed study, "The Cultural Landscape of the Genesee Valley," researched by Justin Tubiola was sent to SHPO, explaining that proposed installation activities would ignore the sensitivity of the land at Golah.

SHPO and ORES didn't care.

Invenergy, as we speak, is drilling underneath this very land. The HDD is guaranteed to disturb burial grounds and cultural materials.

The Seneca Nation of Indians and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation of Indians tried to ask the state to reconsider the siting of this project. Yet again, the American Indians have been sidelined, this time for the state's pursuit of unreliable green energy that makes the staffers at ORES, the politicians defending ORES, and the foreign corporations richer while we lose our physical history here in Upstate New York.

A central tenant of the Haudenosaunee is gratitude and reverence for all of Nature. Each morning, and before each meeting, the Seneca thank the elements of Nature for the gifts they bring. Here is what they say about water (source: Kimmerer- Braiding Sweet Grass):

"We give thanks to all the waters of the world for quenching our thirst, for providing strength and nurturing life for all beings. We know its power in many forms—waterfalls and rain, mists and streams, rivers and oceans, snow and ice. We are grateful that the waters are still here and meeting their responsibility to the rest of Creation. Can we agree that water is important to our lives and bring our minds together as one to send greetings and thanks to the Water? Now our minds are one."

Ironically, in this very area, there are homes with contaminated water, homes without water, and water leaking out of holes bored under the Genesee River, including a punctured aquifer.

All for a solar commercial complex that won't lower your electric bills or provide reliable energy to our grid when we need it most.

This is one of the biggest scams ever peddled on the residents of North America.