It has apparently been confirmed that BP held a meeting at Aubreys with it's lease holders. Of course the speculation is wild as to what this means.
The hope is (including me) that BP is telling the lease holders "Bye Bye" and just pulls the plug and walks away once and for all.
However, there is another possible reality we should consider. That is that maybe BP has found a buyer, and we will have another wind developer yanking on our community chain and continuing the division of the community. And the next wind developer, if there is one, might not drag it's feet on a potential project as BP has done for years while our community got ripped apart..
But if BP walks, and dumps it's lease holders like so much left over trash, we need to seriously rethink our comp plan and zoning and take control by prohibiting wind development once and for all, and passing a community bill of rights and stop letting the future of our community be in the hands of giant wind energy corporations and the politicians that ensure their dirty business.
If BP walks away clean with no other developer behind...then it would be the perfect time to do what I suggest and not squander that opportunity trying to appease the State or anyone else.
Stand up and do what is right to set an example to REALLY protect Cape Vincent and the 1000 Islands.
Stop trying to be reasonable and fair and appease an Art. X system that removed our home rule rights, and start doing something that significantly protects the rights of the people, species, and the scenic and environmental treasures of our area.
Do what has been painfully obvious since 2005 or 2006 and certainly since 2009 when the Wolfe Is. turbines went up. BAN the damn wind development fiasco in CV once and for all, and hope that leadership sets an example that spreads to other wind threatened communities in the region!
STOP, The regional wind energy industrialization of one of New York State's most beautiful and environmentally sensitive areas, the 1000 Islands of the St. Lawrence River and the Golden Crescent of Eastern Lake Ontario. If you don't think you are seeing the most recent posts click on the current month in the archives to the right.
How many times do you need to hear it’s over? No wind turbines, no siting committee, nothing, it's finished and has been for many, many months. It would appear it just took time to trickle down as BP’s management tried to shop a very dead project, so they could possibly try and avoid serious backlash from their leaseholders.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that there is going to be backlash from BP is absurd. First of all the lease holders have already made money off BP for nothing if BP doesn't develop.
ReplyDeleteSecond do you really think all the "poor farmers" and other lease holders are going to try to sue an energy giant like BP, and squander what money they have made from BP on a law suit that would be absurd and eat them alive? Don't you think BP know that?
BP will do exactly what it has already done to this community since day one.
Whatever the hell they want ... when they want!
When the hell does this community stop bending over for BP and the State, and stand up and take control?
And what do we do...oh our town board declares in public documents that the process that assists BP or any other wind developer in raping our community is fair, impartial, even handed and balanced.
After everything we have been through, you have gotta be fucking kidding me!!!
And I will believe it is finished when I don't see another wind developer drooling over a community that will take whatever they dish out so we look fair and reasonable!
No really, I am not kidding, as you suggest. It’s OVER! Try and relax enjoy the rest of your time in the Cape this year and take some more pictures, you’re much better at that than you are at fostering an anti-wind strategy. Also, don’t forget to thank the town board for their execution of a great game plan to rid the Cape of Big Wind. Lastly, safe travels to you as you head back to Arizona, I am looking forward to seeing you again next year without all of this turbine fuss. You’re actually a pretty nice guy when you don’t have a wind bone in your mouth.
ReplyDeleteYeah I figured it would come to this. That the rabid supporters of Hirschey would spin the fantasy that the current board can take full responsibility if BP leaves. That no one else ever had any impact on this issue. Of course the attack against wind and BP development never existed before 2011. Only when this board was elected right??? It was all the Hirschey board... they did it all and all by themselves.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to conveniently forget that Councilman Schneider and the board were writing letters begging BP to put up a solar project in our town. I don't want BP to even put up a lemonade stand in CV with their record!
GET REAL!
I suppose we can credit this board too for the fact BP wants to dump their entire wind business. And this board is also responsible for the capture of Bin Laden too right?
I mentioned to several people months ago when I saw that BP was selling their wind business that the supporters of this board were definitely going to spin the fantasy that if BP walks you people would spin it that it was all the current board.
You people are so damn predictable!
As I said before...BP will do whatever it damn well pleases whenever it pleases and this govt will have had little if anything to do with it IF BP leaves!
IF BP leaves it will be because BP weighed the ECONOMIC realities to their bottom line, not because of any so called game plan our board had. I pray BP walks with no other wind developer in line. But I will believe that when I see it. And if they do this board and community needs to get its poop together and prohibit turbines once and for all before we squander that opportunity too.
And by the way I thought the deal was I would not discuss you on my blog...and YOU would not go on my blog????
And what makes you think I will be talking to you next year or the year after for that matter?
LOL, now that's funny!
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