Note : Mr. Chandler thinks that Cape Vincent NY is in St. Lawrence County.
Additionally this introduction seems to promote the comment they made to the PSC Re Article 10 .
BP has already been engaged with the local community for years on the Cape Vincent Wind Farm project and such work should not be discounted, or required to be reproduced...
PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM
I. INTRDUCTION
According to the rules of the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment (" Siting Board"), applicants proposing to submit an application to construct a major electric generating facility under article 10 of the public service law (" PSL") must submit a Public Involvement Program plan for Department of Public Service (" DPS") review at least 150 days prior to filing a preliminary scoping statement (16 NYCRR – 1000.4). The Public Involvement Program (" PIP" or the "Plan") must include:
(1) consultation with the affected agencies and other stakeholders;
(2) pre-– application activities to encourage stakeholders to participate at the earliest opportunity;
(3) activities designed to educate the public as to the specific proposal and the Article 10 review process, including the availability of funding for municipal and local parties;
(4) establishment of a website to disseminate information to the public;
(5) notifications; and
(6) activities designed to encourage participation by stakeholders in the certification and compliance process (16 NYCRR & 1000.4).
Cape Vincent wind power, LLC (" CV WP"), a subsidiary of BP wind energy North America, I and C. Parenthesis" BP wind energy"), hereby submits its proposed public involvement program plan to DPS for review. BP proposes to construct a wind electric generating facility in the Town of Cape Vincent, St. Lawrence County, New York that is approximately 200 – 285 Megawatts (" MG") in the size (the "Project").
As discussed in greater detail in the following sections, the project is actually the product of combining two adjacent proposed wind farms. Since 2007, BP has been seeking approval to construct the Cape Vincent Wind Farm (" CVWF.") Under the State Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA"). Contemporaneously, Acciona Wind Energy Was Seeking Approval, Also under SEQRA, to construct the St. Lawrence Wind Farm ("SLWF"). BP acquired Acciona’s rights to the SLWF project in February 2012. Accordingly, for approximately 5 years, both CVWF and SLWF have been subject to extensive public review and participation.
In fact, the SLWF completed the SEQRA process with a favorable Findings Statement Issued by the Town of Cape Vincent in September 2010, While CVWF completed a substantial portion of the SEQRA process having submitted both a Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
BP submits this public involvement program plan to build upon extensive public outreach already conducted in the CVWF and SLWF SEQRA proceedings.
As discussed in greater detail in the following sections, the project is actually the product of combining two adjacent proposed wind farms. Since 2007, BP has been seeking approval to construct the Cape Vincent Wind Farm (" CVWF.") Under the State Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA"). Contemporaneously, Acciona Wind Energy Was Seeking Approval, Also under SEQRA, to construct the St. Lawrence Wind Farm ("SLWF"). BP acquired Acciona’s rights to the SLWF project in February 2012. Accordingly, for approximately 5 years, both CVWF and SLWF have been subject to extensive public review and participation.
In fact, the SLWF completed the SEQRA process with a favorable Findings Statement Issued by the Town of Cape Vincent in September 2010, While CVWF completed a substantial portion of the SEQRA process having submitted both a Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
BP submits this public involvement program plan to build upon extensive public outreach already conducted in the CVWF and SLWF SEQRA proceedings.
6 comments:
Shamless crap. They think they can hold out all their old, outdated environmental impact findings as valid. They were never valid in the first place because they were submitted and reviewed under the uncritical eye of a corrupted town Planning Board with members and a chairman who had a financial interest in the projects being approved.
That is a matter a record that can't be overlooked. BP must be required to start from scratch in making their case that this project has an acceptable environmental impact.
Shameless crap, that is.
Every time I think of what BP has done to our community a little vomit rises into my throat
Cape Vincent needs a person on the siting board who has a profound knowledge of the history of of the siting debacle.
They Cape Bloggers should be appointed to assist them with fact finding.
Councilman Clif Schneider has great familiarity with the history of the maneuvers pulled by the delevopers and the compromised local officials who did their bidding.
You are right about Clif; he has a great depth of knowledge concerning the wind developments in Cape Vincent.
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