Read It Again

The CELDF mission statement.  The strategy we should be moving forward with instead of the continued appeasement of the Art X system that might drag on forever.  Underlining is mine.

"We believe that we are in the midst of an escalating ecological crisis, and that the crisis is the result of decisions made by a relatively few people who run corporations and government. We believe that sustainability will never be achieved by leaving those decisions in the hands of a few – both because of their belief in limitless economic production and because their decisions are made at a distance from the communities experiencing the impact of those decisions. Therefore, we believe that to attain sustainability, a right to local self-government must be asserted that places decisions affecting communities in the hands of those closest to the impacts. That right to local self-government must enable communities to reject unsustainable economic and environmental policies set by state and federal governments, and must enable communities to construct legal frameworks for charting a future towards sustainable energy production, sustainable land development, and sustainable water use, among others. In doing so, communities must challenge and overturn legal doctrines that have been concocted to eliminate their right to self-government, including the doctrines of corporate constitutional rights, preemption, and limitations on local legislative authority. Inseparable from the right to local self government - and its sole limitation - are the rights of human and natural communities; they are the implicit and enumerated  premises on which local self government must be built."

The lawyers who wrote this are not crack pots or stupid people. They are visionaries who have vastly more experience in dealing with exactly what Cape Vincent is facing with wind development under corporate and state dominance, than any of our town leaders. They have vast experience on this issue and in constitutional and environmental law.

So why is it our town leaders are blind to this information and expertise?  Which is FREE legal guidance!