It's AWFUL!!!

During a recent Town of Clayton Board meeting town Councilman Chris Matthews expressed the following opinion quoted from the Thousand Islands Sun paper.  He was referring to the NYS's Art. 10 process that has stripped communities of their home rule on siting electric generation facilities including wind energy.

"During the discussion, Councilman Chris Matthews commented, "It's awful that we have to create a wind law in which we have to be careful that, if we’re too restrictive, the state will override the law."

Exactly Mr. Matthews!  It's also awful that most local NNY towns under industrial wind threat have allowed the State to strip away our rights, and are willing to be beaten into submission by the NYS Legislature and Cuomo on behalf of giant corporations.

Unfortunately your town board's statement to the NYPSC that they support home rule is nearly meaningless without a willingness to actually act to unchain ourselves from the State's tyranny on this issue.

Thank you for your support ...but I mean what exactly is the point of your board's comment anyhow when the town you are supporting to retain home rule ( Cape Vincent) has already in writing to the same NYPSC called the Art. X system that stripped  home rule  away fair, impartial, even handed and balanced!!!

One more example how the State's Art. X has so many people running around in absolutely irrational circles trying desperately to kiss the States ass.

When you think about this...Art X has made no final decision in any NYS community yet.  However, they and Cuomo are  politically extremely shrew.  They know that the threat alone will lead us to the brink where we will self destruct and willingly hand the destruction of our communities over to them.

 By the time the actual Art X decision comes we will have already conceded our rights and communities to them to where there is no real political cost to them.  
 
It's not the State and their Art. X we should fear as "awful" ...It's us!!!

We ourselves on this path of appeasement and capitulation are actually the most frightening component of this mess.