Photo by Janet L., Sierra Club Niagara

The Sierra Club Niagara Group and its members have been opposing industrial development at STAMP for many years, largely by working closely with a regional organization called the Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and other environmental and social justice organizations.

Most recently, many of our members attended and spoke at three different hearings this year alone as well as attended Town Board meetings and rallies including one outside the Governor’s fundraiser in Buffalo on May 21. We submitted oral and written comments in opposition to the data center to the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) and the Town Of Alabama Planning Board.

In addition to hiring an environmental attorney, Sierra Club also contracted with noise and economic experts and submitted their analyses which have been widely quoted by the media and opponents of the data center.

We have participated in letter writing campaigns, written letters to the editor, and petitioned for many years. Stopping the data center has been a regular subject in our newsletters for the past couple of years and we have supported public presentations on it.

Finally, we brought a successful lawsuit last year with the Tonawanda Seneca for which we received financial support from a broad base of the public. Since our suit succeeded in stopping the data center last year, public opposition in the region has swelled dramatically. In addition to the outpouring of support in the communities neighboring STAMP we have received support from people throughout the Western New York region.

We paid all our expenses for last year’s litigation and continue to fundraise since it appears we may need to file another lawsuit to stop a much larger data center from being developed on the STAMP site.

To learn more about this lawsuit, please contact us at niagarasierra@gmail.com.

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