Brainwashed!

To expand on a post I just did recently below about preempted wind laws.

The state and the Art. 10 process for siting large power plants (industrial wind included) has some people in such an obedient group think mind set, they are actually writing wind zoning regulations  that the state Art. 10 law essentially prohibits when it comes to large scale wind development.

These towns who stay within the lines of the state Art siting process and write absurd wind laws...they and their "expert"zoning lawyers are writing industrial wind zoning that requires a wind developer to come to the town for the application and permitting process.  When in fact the Art 10 law CLEARLY  prohibits towns from doing any such thing as requiring applications or giving such permits to large wind developers!

And this permitting power is not some part of your law the siting board later allows you to  have.  because the developers are, right now, REQUIRED  to go to the STATE with an application and for a permit...not the town.

If you stick within the Art 10 process the state took that application permitting power away from towns...and you ain't getting it back no matter how much you think you can defend your law!

So why are towns (and their lawyers) writing that permitting language into their wind zoning laws as if they still have that permitting authority when they clearly don't????   Do they not understand the Art. 10 law?

Or is that part of the zoning just a Tonka Toy wind regulation that doesn't really do what the big boy  state law does...but you can still pretend!!!