I can distinctly recall sitting in meetings with people on the anti wind side in Cape Vincent talking about the wind contracts the slick wind salesmen got local land owners to sign. The anti wind people would puff themselves up and say they would have never agreed to sign anything like that that took away so many rights to your land. You would have to be a fool to sign such a thing.
Hmmmm...really? You are that smart eh???
Yet when the state came along with its Article 10 siting process which included the ability to preempt any local laws, drafted by people you elected which in turn was a direct threat and removal of your land rights on a mass scale, some of you anti wind people just jumped right on board with the state and slobbered all over the process just like the pro wind people soaked up the contracts that removed many of their land rights and gave them away to the wind company.
Actually the pro wind people were smarter...at least they got paid for their land rights being removed. You smart Article 10 supporters gave away your rights jumping up and down telling the state and everybody else how fair this was, but came up completely empty handed. They schmoozed you into warm and fuzzy compliance by offering some vague promise of "INPUT" That is all you got. And what is worse you sucked that up with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, NONE, anywhere that the input would actually have any value or make any difference. Just like the wind salesman, this was a "promise" you could bank on so trust us!
Smart? Well let's see here.
The state comes in and says you have no more home rule rights to decide energy siting in your town. probably the biggest land rights issue any town will face that could have a huge impact on your property values. Then the state also says...oh by the way, with the rights we already took away. please go ahead and write a "reasonable "wind law " that we can just preempt if we don't like it anyhow!
Yup that appears to be real smart sound logic. So who was the fool???
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.
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