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September 14, 2025
RETHINK STAMP: Uphold Indigenous Sovereignty. Demand Climate and Environmental Justice.
TAKE ACTION TODAY.
Let’s tell the site’s biggest backers, Governor Kathy Hochul & Senator Chuck Schumer: No new NYS funds or permits to STAMP!
Despite sustained and forceful opposition from the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and its allies, the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) has begun construction of the Western New York Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) on 1,260 acres of wetlands, forested habitat and farmland. The proposed industrial mega-site lies adjacent to the Nation’s federally-recognized Reservation Territory, nestled among protected areas including the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and the John White Wildlife Management Area.
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 thus 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. Learn more in this 10-minute short documentary.
Despite more than 15 years of effort and more than $410 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies, there are only two fully confirmed tenants at STAMP: Edwards Vacuum, a dry pump vacuum manufacturer and Plug Power, a green-hydrogen manufacturer which suspended construction in 2023 and may never resume. In March 2025, GCEDC approved an additional $472 million in taxpayer subsidies for a 900,000 square-foot data center code-named “Project Double Reed.” The Nation and the Sierra Club are currently litigating to challenge GCEDC’s environmental review process of the data center.
STAMP violates New York’s historic Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which should safeguard against building polluting facilities near communities such as the Tonawanda Seneca Nation that already experience disproportionate pollution burdens. While minimal infrastructure has been built on the site, massive environmental harms have already occurred. STAMP is a profound environmental injustice for Nation citizens and their neighbors.
We still have the power to stop this disaster: to protect our woods and waters and taxpayer dollars. NOW is the time for us all to Rethink STAMP. Let’s tell the site’s biggest backers, Governor Kathy Hochul & Senator Chuck Schumer: No new NYS funds or permits to STAMP!
Want to take further action? Send Kathy Hochul a postcard. Click here for the template you can print and send.
RETHINK STAMP: Uphold Indigenous Sovereignty. Demand Climate and Environmental Justice.
TAKE ACTION TODAY.
Let’s tell the site’s biggest backers, Governor Kathy Hochul & Senator Chuck Schumer: No new NYS funds or permits to STAMP!
Despite sustained and forceful opposition from the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and its allies, the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) has begun construction of the Western New York Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) on 1,260 acres of wetlands, forested habitat and farmland. The proposed industrial mega-site lies adjacent to the Nation’s federally-recognized Reservation Territory, nestled among protected areas including the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area and the John White Wildlife Management Area.
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 thus 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. Learn more in this 10-minute short documentary.
Despite more than 15 years of effort and more than $410 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies, there are only two fully confirmed tenants at STAMP: Edwards Vacuum, a dry pump vacuum manufacturer and Plug Power, a green-hydrogen manufacturer which suspended construction in 2023 and may never resume. In March 2025, GCEDC approved an additional $472 million in taxpayer subsidies for a 900,000 square-foot data center code-named “Project Double Reed.” The Nation and the Sierra Club are currently litigating to challenge GCEDC’s environmental review process of the data center.
STAMP violates New York’s historic Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which should safeguard against building polluting facilities near communities such as the Tonawanda Seneca Nation that already experience disproportionate pollution burdens. While minimal infrastructure has been built on the site, massive environmental harms have already occurred. STAMP is a profound environmental injustice for Nation citizens and their neighbors.
We still have the power to stop this disaster: to protect our woods and waters and taxpayer dollars. NOW is the time for us all to Rethink STAMP. Let’s tell the site’s biggest backers, Governor Kathy Hochul & Senator Chuck Schumer: No new NYS funds or permits to STAMP!
Want to take further action? Send Kathy Hochul a postcard. Click here for the template you can print and send.
