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I think the reason this happens is little known to most people. There is protocol to be a large wind turbine developer.
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, you cannot live anywhere near or potentially near a large wind turbine.
Second, you need to have access to a shirt silkscreen facility, to print up matching, "Save the Clocktowerish" uniforms. Also, these shirts must be pastel, and worn over an existing long sleeve dress shirt. This is done to fulfill the illusion of a desperate last second tactic.
Third, when asked specific questions regarding health, safety, and production values, you need to be able to convincingly tell someone that you have answers, and you will get those to them immediately, but not now. For example: A statement would be made to the developer that, "The sky is NOT falling." A developer would need to convey in a response that, "Yes, the sky is falling, and I can get you proof of that soon, but not right here." This is not a guarantee, this is an empty promise, which to developers are one and the same. Note: When pressed for an answer, smile and lie, and make it impressive.
The last and most important feature of being a wind developer is to be able to recite the lyrics to the famous "Gaston" song from Beauty and the Beast. I was puzzled at first when I heard that, but then it started to make sense. No matter what you would ask, provide, and communicate with the wind developers, they rarely acknowledged or accepted your findings, yet everything they recited or handed someone was pure gold.
If you listen closely to The Observer's video and audio from the town of Union, occasionally you can hear the wind developers refer to each other as Gaston. This trait has shown it can compound and mutate as demonstrated in the movie, The Matrix, with Agent Smith.
The old saying, "All is fair in love and war," needs an amendment.
"Normal's" Herman is right on. Once again, the wind folks are simply going to go to Madison, and pull the 'end around' by trying to give these wind siting decisions exclusively to the PSC--you know, the ones who already served us so well on this issue, by admitting that their coveted "Model Ordinance" had absolutely ZERO scientific support.
ReplyDeleteSo, after Union Twsp. spent untold hours (and dollars) coming up with a science based, legally defensible siting ordinance, the Eco folks decided to take the fight to Madison, where they will try to erase what we did, and build these things where the wind doesn't blow--but they will still get their million-dollar-tax check from the federal govt.
The excuse that some politicians will use to support doing this is that "the environmental groups support it". Well, most of us also support wind energy--where it is feasable! All we are saying is that don't let these idiots build these things where it inflicts harm to those in the surrounding area, simply so the wind folks can take their tax incentive (which they get whether the wind blows or not). DO build them--if you want--where they will actually generate useable amounts of electricity--like, far out in the lakes.
If the Gov. and the Legislature (meaning the individual legislators that support this) allow this 'end-around', you can kiss local control over anything goodbye.
"Angry" doesn't begin to define how many of us are feeling about this.
Thanks, Observer, for keeping this issue alive for the people who still think local control is a GOOD thing.
Tom Alisankus