Greenidge has refuted the claims that's following action at law right away or “preventing anyone from sharing their position.”
Greenidge Generation LLC, an upstate New York-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm has reportedly vulnerable action over recurrent “demonstrably false” claims from native activists.
Greenidge mines BTC at its gas-fired power station close to the Seneca Lake in Dresden, and therefore the firm has been barred during a long-running battle with activists who say that the firm’s practices are damaging to the native surroundings.
Activists Yvonne Taylor and Abi Buddington claim that the Greenidge CEO vale Irwin sent them “threatening” letters in response to their public pushback against the firm. The letters have since been shared publically and seek advice from following “all legal remedies available” if the activists still “intentionally deceive the general public by outright lying concerning our company’s operations.”
Taylor is that the co-founder of the Seneca Lake Guardian meliorist cluster, who has defendant Greenidge of “spewing greenhouse gases and golf shot legion gallons of pollution back to the Seneca Lake daily.” Buddington has spoken out against the firm on multiple occasions, questioning its regulative compliance and environmental impacts.
During an interview with Spectrum News 1’s Capital Tonight on Oct. 27, Taylor was questioned on the character of the legal threats. She claims that Greenidge had vulnerable to sue them if they didn’t keep “quiet” earlier this month, and prompt that the letters were a vicinity of a scare plan of action.
“Despite the actual fact that this has been very destabilizing, I worry 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 more experienced Taylor’s claims, contention that it’s not following legal proceedings or “preventing anyone from sharing their position.” A Greenidge representative told Cointelegraph:
“If you’ve read the letters they are referring to, you will see that there was absolutely no threat here. We sent respectful requests seeking an end to continued false public statements, across multiple platforms, regarding Greenidge and our team. We provided a detailed, point-by-point response to the inaccurate claims, as we have done in the past.”
(Brian Quarmby, cointelegraph, 2021)