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The first calls to make
Start at the top — this is roughly the order we'd reach out in. The coalition and the experienced NY groups open the door to everyone else.
National Coalition Against Cryptomining (NCAC)
- What it offers — a free national network built for exactly this fight — active in 20+ states, with a playbook, peer mentors who've already done it, and a warm path to the environmental lawyers. Finger Lakes veterans of New York's crypto fights are inside it.
- How to plug in — this is our first email. They route us to people who've won, and to Earthjustice.
- Contact — contact@nationalcoalitionagainstcryptomining.com · nationalcoalitionagainstcryptomining.com
Seneca Lake Guardian — Yvonne Taylor
- What it offers — the grassroots group that led New York's Greenidge crypto-mine fight, and explicitly coaches other NY towns. The most experienced, warmest NY contact available — and the warm introduction into Earthjustice and the Sierra Club.
- How to plug in — call or email and say a NY town is organizing against a 635 MW expansion.
- Contact — (607) 342-1278 · senecalakeguardian@gmail.com · info@senecalakeguardian.org
MUSH — Mohawks United (Akwesasne)
- What it offers — a local, member-led grassroots group already fighting this project — and the bridge to the Mohawk governments who are already on record opposing it.
- How to plug in — they have no website — connect in person at a Massena library or town meeting, or through North Country Now / NCPR's Catherine Wheeler, or via the SRMT Environment Division.
The river & sovereignty heavyweight
The seat at the table residents don't have
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe — Environment Division
- What it offers — a funded environment office with a formal seat at the table — the Tribe co-manages the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern with NYS DEC, was a natural-resource-damages trustee in the $19.4M Alcoa settlement, and members have publicly opposed the zoning change. Treaty / sovereignty standing a resident simply doesn't have.
- How to plug in — a resident's role is to align and amplify, not to recruit. Hand them the contaminated-ground / river angle and ask how residents can support the Division's work.
- Contact — Director Tony David — tony.david@srmt-nsn.gov · (518) 358-5937 · environment@srmt-nsn.gov · 449 Frogtown Road, Akwesasne NY.
The legal muscle
Best reached through the coalition, not cold
Earthjustice — Northeast Office
- What it offers — the top environmental-litigation muscle in the country on these fights — represents community groups for free, already counsel in New York's crypto cases. They pick strategic cases.
- How to plug in — best approached through NCAC / Seneca Lake Guardian, not cold. There's also a "request legal assistance" form.
- Contact — (212) 845-7376 · neoffice@earthjustice.org · earthjustice.org/about/request-legal-assistance
Sierra Club — Atlantic Chapter
- What it offers — has sued repeatedly over New York crypto mining; policy and organizing weight statewide.
- How to plug in — reach the chapter conservation director, Roger Downs.
- Contact — sierraclub.org/atlantic
Save The River / Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper
- What it offers — a Waterkeeper-affiliate group with direct standing on St. Lawrence River impacts — a natural local ally on the water side.
- How to plug in — reach them through their site.
- Contact — savetheriver.org
A realistic word on what these allies can do. This network can delay a project, raise its costs, win conditions, and shape state policy — the best-lawyered NY crypto fight (Greenidge) won a permit denial, then settled, and the plant still runs. A guaranteed shutdown isn't on the table. But organized, sourced, persistent pressure is exactly what moves a board, a regulator, and a governor. That's the game we're in, and it's winnable on the terms that matter: a real review, real conditions, and a town that was actually heard.
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