By The Tonawanda Seneca Nation
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation faces an existential threat from the Western New York Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP), a proposed industrial “mega site” underwritten by New York state subsidies and facilitated by New York state permits and policy. Despite sustained and forceful opposition from the Nation and its allies, developer Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) has begun construction of STAMP on 1,260 acres of wetlands, forests, and farmland. STAMP lies adjacent to the Nation’s federally-recognized Reservation Territory, nestled among public protected lands. Tonawanda Senecas and other people from across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy continue to hunt, fish, and gather in the Nation’s “Big Woods,” an ecologically rich primary forest. Industrialization at STAMP threatens Haudenosaunee cultural practices as well as the Nation’s treaty-protected rights to clean water and to the free use and enjoyment of its homelands.
Today, the Nation asks its allies to take action: tell New York Governor Kathy Hochul: no more direct or indirect subsidies to prop up the failing boondoggle that is the STAMP mega industrial site. No more state permits or approvals to a destructive project that violates the Nation’s treaty rights to free use and enjoyment of their homelands. Click here for a recent statement from the Nation. Then, click here to send Governor Hochul an email.
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