Saturday, November 17, 2012

BP's Chandler is Promoting a Flawed Sound Study

BP held an open house Nov.10/2012 in Cape Vincent NY as required by the Public Service Commission to pursue their project under an article 10 process. It was abundantly clear that this open house was merely a formality as was completely devoid of meaningful dialog or public involvement. BP’s Project developer Richard Chandler was on hand to answer questions and respond to feedback from the community. I expressed my concerns to Chandler about turbine setbacks and noise, he responded to my feedback like a robot using scripted a dialog. He cited the sound study completed by Acciona for the St. Lawrence wind project as reassurance that noise is a non-issue. This was hardly reassuring...

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Anonymous said...

This is what Wikipedia says about BP, Chandler's company:

BP was named by Multinational Monitor as one of the ten worst corporations in both 2001 and 2005 based on its environmental and human rights records.[237] In 1991 BP was cited as the most polluting company in the US based on EPA toxic release data. In 2007, the United States Department of Justice announced that BP had agreed to plead guilty to a felony violation of the Clean Air Act for its conduct that resulted in the fatal explosion on March 23, 2005 at their Texas City Refinery. As part of the guilty plea BP agreed to pay a $50 million criminal fine, the largest ever assessed under the Clean Air Act.[238]

And Chandler says noise is a non-problem. This coming from a representative of a company, BP that puts profit above safety. Yeah.