Are Cape Vincent Town Leaders Kidding Us???? Seriously????

  Now this is really a classic!!!

On the JLL Blog, Wiley in the quote below refers  to a recent CV Article 10 Advisory Committee meeting discussion.  Underlining emphasis is mine. ( By the way Rick, the date of March 17, 2013 should be 2014)

"The Committee has prepared and reviewed documents that, depending the Town Board's Approval,  will be submitted to the New York State Public Service Commission at the appropriate time.  Judge Agresta has set a control date of March 17, 2013. If British Petroleum has not found a buyer for their Cape Vincent project by that time, the committee is prepared to take appropriate actions to end "Cape Vincent's long, emotionally fraught history with industrial wind."

Now there is something really goofy or bizarre about this quote.  Read the underlined part again and think about it. Did Wiley actually get this correct?

Sooooo....as long as BP is successful at selling their project, then it is perfectly OK with the Town Board to let us be dragged into MORE "emotionally fraught history with industrial wind "????

In Wiley's usual spin as the Hirschey PR spokesman...is this supposed to be good news????
Is a new wind developer going to bring us some new panacea in wind development that BP didn't.

Are these guys that desperate to invite a wind developer in and see if they can battle Art. 10 with our new zoning and win? 

Some days I just sit here scratching my head trying to figure out the nonsense as  this govt gets so irrational in its appeasement of the State and as a result spews out this spin of its supposed "tough position",  while at the same time being a patsy to Art. X and BP.  

Seems to me, to be just a weee bit more rational about nearly a decade of our community being beat to death by industrial wind, it might make just a little more common sense to end our industrial wind/Art 10 nightmare once and for all no matter whether BP sells or not, and no matter who the next damn developer might be.

And the other goofy thing about this supposed "tough talk" is...if BP doesn't sell it might be just as likely the ending of our wind nightmare might have nothing to do with the town board. Art. 10 and Agresta may be the ones to end it.

This quote is another one that should go in the museum... like the town saying Art.10 is fair and even handed and balanced process!!!!

AND... just because BP doesn't sell, or if Art 10 ends BP's application process, who's to say another wind developer won't come along and open another application and drag us through the same bullshit for who knows how long.

When the hell are these people going to face up to reality?  If you want to end this wind nightmare you are going to have to do it yourself, and it won't entail writing wind zoning that keeps the industrial  wind door open to some wind development, and by appeasing Art. 10!!!

Makes me wonder how much influence our new deputy town supervisor Dick Macsherry had on this goofy position.