Harry Bronson, candidate for NYS Assembly District 138ict

So when it comes to energy, the governor said during the debate that she has an all-of-the-above energy policy, and she...

That's kind of borrowing language from the Obama administration, but it's not actually true.

She doesn't, she doesn't wanna lift the ban on fracking, for example.

I presume you don't either, but-

No, I do not.

But it's not an all-of-the-above.

Uh, but is it enough? Do you think the governor's policy is enough? What do you wanna see with energy that's not happening, whether it's wind, solar, et cetera? What's going on that you would change?

So I have the privilege of being chair of the Labor Committee.

As such, I am deeply involved in the transition to a green economy.

I have worked very closely with the Climate Jobs Institute out of Cornell, um, and, uh, worked to develop processes that will help us when it comes to energy.

That is looking at all of the above.

So looking at the generation, where is that energy coming? Is it coming from a, a renewable, sustainable source? Two, the transmission of that energy.

Three, battery storage.

How do we deal with if you're using solar, um, or wind, you know, it ebbs and flows on the production of the energy.

So can you, when it's windy out, can you then store that energy in battery? Um, was deeply involved in a federal grant that the University of Binghamton got, uh, to develop battery storage.

RIT is part of that as well, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Um, and so I'm looking at this as w- I want us to move to a green economy.

There is gonna be a need to continue to use, um, you know, natural gas during that period of time and maybe even after for a period of time.

There's certain industries that electricity cannot heat up what they need to the level that they have to have for whatever their manufacturing is.

Um, so, um, and in part of this, the gr- the Climate Jobs Institute, my work also is involved in making sure as we make that transition, that we don't leave people behind who are in the fossil industry, and that we also bring people in who have been on the economic and workforce sidelines, uh, for far too long.

What do you make of the- the debate about solar arrays on farmland?

So, um, I think there's a balancing act there.

Um, you know, come as being a, a person who grew up on a farm and-

Yeah

... and now a person who lives on a farm, um, I believe that we can have both.

So when it comes to energy, the governor said during the debate that she has an all-of-the-above energy policy, and she...

That's kind of borrowing language from the Obama administration, but it's not actually true.

She doesn't, she doesn't wanna lift the ban on fracking, for example.

I presume you don't either, but-

No, I do not.

But it's not an all-of-the-above.

Uh, but is it enough? Do you think the governor's policy is enough? What do you wanna see with energy that's not happening, whether it's wind, solar, et cetera? What's going on that you would change?

So I have the privilege of being chair of the Labor Committee.

As such, I am deeply involved in the transition to a green economy.

I have worked very closely with the Climate Jobs Institute out of Cornell, um, and, uh, worked to develop processes that will help us when it comes to energy.

That is looking at all of the above.

So looking at the generation, where is that energy coming? Is it coming from a, a renewable, sustainable source? Two, the transmission of that energy.

Three, battery storage.

How do we deal with if you're using solar, um, or wind, you know, it ebbs and flows on the production of the energy.

So can you, when it's windy out, can you then store that energy in battery? Um, was deeply involved in a federal grant that the University of Binghamton got, uh, to develop battery storage.

RIT is part of that as well, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Um, and so I'm looking at this as w- I want us to move to a green economy.

There is gonna be a need to continue to use, um, you know, natural gas during that period of time and maybe even after for a period of time.

There's certain industries that electricity cannot heat up what they need to the level that they have to have for whatever their manufacturing is.

Um, so, um, and in part of this, the gr- the Climate Jobs Institute, my work also is involved in making sure as we make that transition, that we don't leave people behind who are in the fossil industry, and that we also bring people in who have been on the economic and workforce sidelines, uh, for far too long.

What do you make of the- the debate about solar arrays on farmland?

So, um, I think there's a balancing act there.

Um, you know, come as being a, a person who grew up on a farm and-

Yeah

... and now a person who lives on a farm, um, I believe that we can have both.