The New Cape Vincent Zoning Committee Made a Dangerous Concession In Their New Zoning Law!!!!

So I am sitting here absolutely stunned!!!!    I just got around to reading Rick Wiley’s JLL blog and I am STUNNED!!!

Here is what Mr. Wiley said about the noise restrictions in the  new 2012 Cape Vincent draft zoning law.

“In my opinion, the Cape Vincent draft zoning law is still overly generous with NOISE allowances for industrial wind turbines that will expose us to NOISE 24 hours of the day. Night time NOISE limits of 35 Decibels is an unnecessary and dangerous concession to British Petroleum and their local Voters for Wind financial partners who have thus far refused to concede to anything lower that 50 Decibels.

I was so stunned in fact that I had to re-read this a couple times to make sure I had it right, then pulled up my copy of the new zoning to look at the noise restrictions again.  

WOW!!!!!  Dangerous and unnecessary concession.  As Wiley himself would say HOLY CRAP!!!!

Now actually good for you Rick in standing this ground on noise particularly with industrial wind turbines, but I have a better suggestion.  How about you take one step further and we eliminate that source of noise once and for all…period!!!!  Then we won’t have to argue and worry or be dangerously impacted by 50 or 35 or whatever the most recent magic dba number is that almost nobody understands anyhow.

Is Mr. Wiley suggesting that the “experts” that I have been told repeatedly we must follow could possibly be WRONG!!!!  Maybe even did something dangerous.

Is Mr. Wiley actually being critical of the new town board  appointed zoning committee and their work and suggesting that they conceded something dangerous and unnecessary to BP that could harm the public welfare of CV????.

Dangerous and unnecessary isn’t exactly lightweight criticism. That is getting pretty damn edgy.

Then there is this comment under the JLL post.

“Perhaps it is designed to appear generous to an article 10 board but not too generous to BP Any town that restricts noise to 25 dBA may get a designation as too burdensome and their law could be rejected. Any town using 50 dBA, as suggested by BP, is inviting a wind farm into their community. Recommending 35 dBA to me looks like a balancing act that the zoning committee is trying to accomplish that is not so restrictive to be called burdensome, but too restrictive for BP to put 140 turbines in the Cape.
The committee members aren't a bunch of dummies. I wish them luck.”

Is this person and Wiley for that matter actually suggesting  that they are at the point in their thinking that the zoning committee was acting dangerously and unnecessarily to compromise with and appease Article X?

That is really interesting… and that would be a damn slippery slope to be on for many reasons including politically. Want to write letters to the PSC about Article X?  Well how about somebody  (maybe Mr. Wiley) now write the PSC and tell them they don’t agree with the experts noise restrictions in the new CV zoning law and they are an unnecessary and dangerous concession that will harm the community !!!!   I won’t hold my breath on that one!

Now what I expect to see here is a wholesale attack on Mr. Wiley from the avid supporters of the new town govt and its zoning committee. 

Can you imagine for a split second if I had said this zoning committee did something dangerous and unnecessary.  Or for that matter said anything negative about them AT ALL.   The new board defenders would be off their leashes and on the rabid  attack.

Now watch out Rick…if you keep this up you could end up just like me where the zoning committee would outright reject any more of your input.

Now if we  are not willing to prohibit wind development for the blatant and painfully obvious reasons, both scientific and rational to really protect this community…then this is the slippery slope appeasement and compromise game you end up playing and BP and the State are going to be better at it.   My suggestion would be stop complaining at this late date. You chose and supported this path and gave it to the “experts” to play this game for you.  If you don’t suddenly like the way they are playing, then I guess you live with it.  After all Wiley told us repeatedly they were the “experts”.  They could not possibly be wrong!