The evening features the world premiere of Unfiltered: New York’s Watershed Battle, followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A examining what this transition means for land use, grid reliability, workers, and local communities and whether the region will once again be asked to absorb the physical costs of New York City’s growth without a meaningful voice in the outcome.

This conversation is directly relevant to the proposed Battery Energy Storage System on Hurley Avenue in the Town of Ulster, which would place critical energy infrastructure inside a residential area connected by wetlands and tributaries to the Esopus Creek system. As with the watershed system, the Hurley Avenue project raises the same fundamental question: who bears the environmental risk, and who gets to decide when large-scale infrastructure is placed in local communities.

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