The station has two massive smoke stacks that once burned tons and tons of coal, polluting the air as well as the Hudson River. The site is referred to as "An inspiring remnant of our industrial and transportation heritage" according to the Preservation League's own website. http://www.preservenys.org/. "As metropolitan waterfronts are redeveloped, we are losing the magnificent power plants that made our modern transportation systems possible," said Mary Habstritt, Chair of the Preservation Committee of the Roebling Chapter, Society for Industrial Archeology.

A statement like "magnificent power plants" was probably just as subjective and in the eye of the beholder when the Glenwood Plant was being built in 1904, as it is today when rural communities looking to host magnificent power plants fueled by wind face narrow minded opposition.

The fact that preservationists are simultaneously trying to prevent responsible new power generation (wind energy in Jordanville a mile from a Russian Monastery) and also trying to save a defuct coal plant doesn't necessarily invalidate the need to save the power station. It does, however, call into question the subjectivity and bias exercised by some preservationists referencing industrial beauty, past progress, and the fabric that made our history and then turn around and renounce the fabric of what will continue to make our history by rejecting the construction of a wind farm. Especially when considering the myriad of positive benefits wind energy brings to the working landscape of rural New York. It is as though some have resigned our Empire State to a state of dust collecting souvenirs to sadly remind us of a time when industry and innovation prospered in New York, as though new responsible energy sources are no longer needed nor are they compatible with the very history that brought us here today.