The Town's Insistence on Participation in Art. X - Who Benefits Most???

Who benefits  most, pro wind or anti wind, by the Town of Cape Vincent Town Board insisting on following Article X ?    Well let’s see, it’s really pretty simple!

Pro wind heavily favors following the Art X process because it puts the full force and power of a green NYS and its popular green governor and his agencies behind them.   It removes home rule on wind zoning to make pro wind’s  power almost unlimited on the community wind siting issue. 

Pro wind favors Art X because it significantly weakens anti wind  and forces anti wind into a system to hand over their restrictive zoning law to BP for BP ( and by default pro wind ) to negotiate its terms through the political third party Art X process, no matter how the Board declares they will defend our zoning, or how restrictive it is.   And that third party is significantly rigged to the developer’s agenda , and empowered by a green State agenda.

 Pro wind didn’t have to show up to the CV zoning committee meetings to have input or influence our law.  What would be no point for them?   They will let the real force of BP, Cuomo, and the State agencies he lords over, negotiate and have input for them against the Town.  This is where the real power is to formulate what our law will ultimately look like and they know it.  They don’t need to sit in local meetings with an ‘anti wind” board or zoning committee.  

This is what our Town Board insists on following despite the overwhelming odds.  So you have to look at this and ask…who are they benefiting by this absolute insistence of stay in the Art X process and letting our law be negotiated away by BP and the State powers behind BP? 

The Town Board is so devoted to the idea of  being “ reasonable and fair and not overly burdensome” that  they won’t even pass a simple political resolution to oppose Art X and the loss of home rule, as Jefferson County did.  They have had one tunnel visioned path, and that is a zoning law as the only defense, yet it is then handed to the State and BP to be negotiated

Question is WHY will they charge ahead when it is obvious how this system is significantly stacked to the pro wind side?  They can not claim to be defending our community and its law when the best shake they will get is to negotiate our law with powers like BP and the State in a rigged system.

Many of the Board’s supporters claim the Board to be anti wind.  Do you really think this helps the anti wind side???  Really???

Who are they actually helping and WHY?  No wonder pro wind is so tickled pink about Art. X and our Board charging ahead with it!   Our Board just keeps handing the power to BP and the State and its green agenda and by default also to pro wind.

If you carefully consider all the above, it becomes clear that the Board by its actions (not its rhetoric)  to remain devoted to the Art X process is actually a very wind friendly town board by purpose or by miscalculation. 

You don't see pro wind saying an awful lot lately, not even many letters to the PSC.  They have figured it out what the Board is doing and where it will lead for them!