Cryptocurrency Mining, An Emerging and Unregulated Industry?
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The last round of government approval needed to give the greenlight to Greenidge’s expansion, is the Torrey Town Planning board.
Torrey is a small, rural town in the heart of the Finger Lakes, situated on the west side of Seneca Lake.The Planning Board is reviewing a site plan application for Greenidge at it’s meeting on April 19th.
There are a lot of layers to this decision. Whether Torrey approves or denies the site plan application from this huge crypto-mining operation is, in a sense, besides the point now.
At least regionally and potentially state wide, Greenidge has tipped over a set of dominoes; alerting local governments, public officials, and activist groups to cryptocurrency mining’s potential impact on environmental impact.
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