How Do You Stop A Tsunami? - Count the Grains of Sand on the Beach????

If you look on the Cape Vincent blog Pandora's Box of Rocks you will see a long laundry list of industrial wind impacts the town is concerned about that they provided for BP and the Art X process about BP's wind project.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/121716255/BP-Additional-Impacts-for-Cape-Vincent-Wind-Complex

This document is long and detailed.  In the context of insisting on participating in the Art X process, with the large assumption it will be fair on these issues and can be significantly impacted by these details and it is not a political scam, then this is an impressive piece of work. 

But here is my point.

Why in the hell do we want any wide spread invasive industrial project  with this impressive list of invasive impacts in our community or region AT ALL.  Seems to me when you read this document the intelligent conclusion would be to prohibit such a land use with so many wide spread and far reaching impacts that would require this level of absurd paper chase and mitigation.

The absurd implication here is that if we just study this to death with more science and more research and require more detailed studies that we can some how overcome or mitigate these issues to a point of some type of acceptance.

BALONEY!!!!

That is what permit approvals are based on.  Get it...approvals!!!  Oh yeah we studied this to death and did more studies, and more research and made the developer paper chase this thing  from here to the moon, so I guess it is ok to permit it now because everyone feels so good that we ran it through the paper wringer. 

What a joke!!!

And I am really amused where this document says BP "shall" do this, or "shall" do that as if the town still has some kind of control over all this.  Sorry...there is no SHALL.  You gave that away for the State to decide.

Then there is all this nonsense about alternatives that BP should bring us as if one will be acceptable.  Well I don't want any alternatives from this company with their reputation and corrupt business practices, even if it is a damn lemonade stand run on solar power. Why in the hell with what we know about BP are we even suggesting anything that would keep them in our community as if that is legitimate?

And lastly...this document nit picks in agonizing detail each item as if these impacts are all that matter and will save us in the Art X process.  This completely ignores the reality that Art X is not really about all this stuff at all.  It is about POLITICAL and CORPORATE POWER, GREED  AND AGENDAS.

So where is the part of this document that deals with that impact and reality?

This town govt is making a case based primarily on items that will have very little relevance to the final outcome based on the real purpose of the Art X scam.  If your going to play in the game with the big boys it might be wise to actually know how the game is played...don't ya think!!!

We are facing a tsunami, and the town govt thinks the way to stop it is  by running down to the shore with a maginifyimng glass and counting the grains of sand on the beach!