Did Hell Freeze Over??? - Watertown Daily Times Commentary On Wind Energy!

Get out your skates! I think Hell just froze over!!!!

I read the editorial in the Watertown Daily Times and was stunned!

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20130604/OPINION01/706049989


First let me say I appreciate the position the Times has taken on wind energy. Finally! Thank you WDT , now let’s keep the ball rolling since this there is still a lot to investigate and report on.

But here is the scary thing. With all the credible information available, and all the experience and evidence the WDT has right on its own door step…it took SEVEN YEARS to reach this OBVIOUS CONCLUSION!!! IT HAS BEEN 7 YEARS…WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!

SERIOUSLY 7 YEARS!!!    What does that say about investigative journalism, not to mention just plain good journalism.

But in fairness it is not just a WDT issue. It is pervasive in the main stream media to not upset the apple cart when it comes to the wind energy scam. A that is in the liberal AND conservative media!

I believe the WDT should get 100% behind the protection the 1000 Islands and Golden Crescent, and the Art. 10 removal of community rights to protect our region. And then there is the investigation of CV by Cuomo as AG that just evaporated after his election, and his Ag. Commissioner with BP leases and on and on!

We have been waiting! Are we going to wait another 7 years as the 1000 Islands is turned into an industrial wind wasteland through corruption and the removal of our constitutional rights??? Or is the WDT going to sleep through that too?

But it is much worse than that if you consider the wind development ethical cesspool that surrounded wind in CV right under the WDT’s nose that reaches all the way to the State level and the NY Governor AND STILL DOES.

For 7 years the WDT reporters couldn’t walk out there doorstep to report on local wind development issues without stepping right into the industrial wind poop and getting it all over their shoes and note pads …and they still couldn’t smell it and alert their readership and take a stand???

The new WDT comments on wind energy are great, (now that is is safe to say after so many of us have been saying it for 7 years and made it main stream ) but let’s not get too blissful over it because their job as responsible journalists is far from done on this issue! Not even close!

Our region literally hangs in the balance on this issue with potential corruption, environmental destruction, and removal of community home rule rights for what the WDT now apparently realizes is a bogus energy source that accomplished nothing toward our energy or climate concerns. So let’s see what they do next!

Hopefully it won’t take another seven years for them to understand the importance
of protecting our region from all the above!!!