Greenidge has refuted the claims that is pursuing legal action right now or “preventing anyone from sharing their position.”
Greenidge Generation LLC, an upstate New York-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm has reportedly threatened legal action over repeated “demonstrably false” claims from local activists.
Greenidge mines BTC
at its gas-fired power plant near the Seneca Lake in Dresden, and the
firm has been locked in a long-running battle with activists who allege
that the firm’s practices are damaging to the local environment.
Activists
Yvonne Taylor and Abi Buddington claim that the Greenidge CEO Dale
Irwin sent them “threatening” letters in response to their public
pushback against the firm. The letters have since been shared
publicly and refer to pursuing “all legal remedies available” if the
activists continue to “intentionally deceive the public by outright
lying about our company’s operations.”
Taylor is the co-founder of the Seneca Lake Guardian environmentalist group, who has accused Greenidge
of “spewing greenhouse gases and putting millions of gallons of thermal
pollution back into the Seneca Lake daily.” Buddington has spoken out against the firm on multiple occasions, questioning its regulatory compliance and environmental impacts.
During an interview
with Spectrum News 1’s Capital Tonight on Oct. 27, Taylor was
questioned on the nature of the legal threats. She claims that Greenidge
had threatened to sue them if they didn’t keep “quiet” earlier this
month, and suggested that the letters were a part of a scare tactic.
“Despite the fact that this has been extremely destabilizing, I fear for my safety," Taylor told Capital Tonight:
"I
fear for my family’s safety. I feel that I am on the side of right and I
do have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech."
Greenidge
responded to Taylor’s claims, arguing that it’s not pursuing legal
action or “preventing anyone from sharing their position.”
In a
statement to Capital Tonight the firm stated that the duo should be
asked why they have repeatedly made “demonstrably false” claims against
Greenidge.
“Our critics calling attention to their own repeated
false and misleading public statements is an interesting strategy,”
Greenidge said. "It is also ironic that those who today say they’re
concerned about potential litigation are the very same people currently
suing Greenidge and the small town of Torrey. The Seneca Lake Guardian
and others also previously sued the State of New York regarding
Greenidge and lost in court
Related: New York businesses ask governor to deny permits for crypto mining
In
both of the letters addressed to the activists, Greenidge refutes their
claims by sharing its own operational data and environmental and
regulatory compliance records.
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