Please join us tomorrow, Saturday 1/08 at 3 pm for this very important meeting on Cryptocurrency Mining from Fossil Fuel Energy Sources.

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Seneca Lake Guardian is a New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation with 501(c)(3) and is dedicated to preserving and protecting the health of the Finger Lakes, its residents and visitors, its rural community character, and its agricultural and tourist related businesses through public education, citizen participation, engagement with decision makers, and networking with like-minded organizations. https://senecalakeguardian.org/Greenidge-Bitcoin-Mining

See an interview with Yvonne Taylor, Vice President of Seneca Lake Guardian here on CBS news. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/bitcoin-mining-and-its-environmental-costs/#x

We are extremely grateful that Seneca Lake Guardian could arrange this meeting with us on such short notice. On information and belief, the proposed facility at 5900 Morgantown Industrial Park will be converting electricity from an onsite natural gas well and operating 24/7 to run blockchain data. Full clarification on the function of the facility has yet to be disclosed. The outrageous amount of energy required to run and cool Bitcoin mining facilities has hastened the purchase of entire coal fired power plants to run their operations, such has already been reported for the plant in Grant Town WV.

A special Thank You to Paula Hunt, Duane Nichols and Jim Kotcon and others for their work on completing comments that helped prompt the public meeting next Tuesday regarding the Air Quality Permit Application R13-3533 (Marion Energy Partners LLC - Science Facility) pending approval by the WVDEP. I am again providing information regarding the DEP public meeting on 1/11 at 6pm below. See the Green Arrow.

Also see more here at https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2022/01/03/proposed-%E2%80%9Cscience-facility%E2%80%9D-would-pollute-the-morgantown-area/

Thank you!

Nyoka Baker Chapman

LWVWV Board of Directors

LWV of the Huntington Area Board of Directors

LWVWV Natural Resources Committee

LWVWV Fair Maps Committee

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DEP to Hold Public Meeting and Extend Public Comment Period

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will hold a virtual public meeting on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, to provide information and receive comments regarding Marion Energy Partners LLC's air quality permit application. Marion Energy Partners has proposed to construct a data processing facility located at 5900 Morgantown Industrial Park, Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, at 39.60559 latitude and -79.98176 longitude.

The DAQ will hold the public meeting virtually at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. Instructions for providing oral comments at the virtual public meeting are provided below. Representatives from the DAQ will conduct the meeting regarding the construction application submitted by Marion Energy Partners on August 18, 2021.

To participate online or by telephone, registration is required by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. To register, please complete the registration form at: https://forms.gle/vZvJirkUKayGee1W7. To register to provide oral comments, please indicate "yes" you want to provide oral comments on the record when you register. A confirmation email will be sent with information on how to join the public meeting. If you do not have internet access and want to register to participate via telephone, please contact Sandie Adkins or Stephanie Hammonds at (304) 926-0475. Oral comments are limited to five (5) minutes. Video demonstrations and screen sharing by commenters is not permitted.

Written comments must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 13, 2022:

· Email written comments to Edward.S.Andrews@wv.gov with "Marion Energy Partners Comments" in the subject line, or

· Mail hard copy comments to Edward Andrews, WV Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Quality, 601 57^th Street, SE, Charleston, WV 25304.

Instructions for downloading additional information, including copies of the draft permit, application, and all other supporting materials relevant to the permit decision is available at: https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/Pages/NSR-Permit-Applications.aspx.