WHEN ARE ACCIONA & BP DOING CAPE VINCENT ICE STUDIES??

I have a comment about Acciona’s DEIS pertaining to ice throw it is as follows, Acciona selectively quotes from a report on ice risk assessment (Morgan, Bossanyi & Seifert) in its DEIS that there has never been a reported injury from ice shed by wind turbines.

What they fail to mention is that when this report was written relatively few towers had been installed in climates where icing was a serious problem.

The report that the above quote is taken from states, “That situation is rapidly changing as extensive development of the wind resource in many Northern European countries has now commenced.

Indeed, the potential risk has recently attracted significant publicity in Germany, where a number of significant incidents have been reported in the past year, indicating an urgent need for suitable safety guidelines.”

The report goes on to explain the etiology of rotor blade icing making it worthy of research. It also proposes that risk assessment should be undertaken in three stages:

“I. Occurrence of icing conditions
An estimate should be made of the time (number of days per year) during which icing
Conditions occur at the turbine site:

. “Heavy icing”- more than 5 days, less than 25 days icing per year.

“Moderate icing”-more than 1 day, less than 5 days icing per year.

“Light icing”-less than 1 day icing per year.

“No icing”-no appropriate icing conditions occur

Northern New York does experience icing conditions and our weather is colder than
Germany.

Since St Lawrence Wind introduced the (Morgan, Bossanyi & Seifert) report in its own DEIS this would lead one to conclude that they would stand by all its recommendations and do the proposed assessment of risk as described in the report cited in the DEIS.

This example of selective quoting from outside reporting agencies leads one to wonder how many other parts of the DEIS have been selectively
Quoted to reflect favorably on the project.

These foreign wind companies are interested in one thing and only one thing money they are not interested in our health and well-being.

When are ACCIONA & BP going to do the appropriate ICE STUDIES?