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BP’s public involvement
“Four hostile newspapers are more to
be feared than a thousand bayonets.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
Part of the Article X control siting wind energy projects is the
Public Involvement Program. PIP is a written plan for engaging, interacting
with and informing the community about the wind proposal. In Cape Vincent,
British Petroleum has written what they consider their PIP. While that PIP is
weak and vague, it seems there is another more powerful public involvement
program quietly afoot.
BP wind leaseholders and members of Voters For Wind, a group BP
claims credit for assisting to form, filed a lawsuit last summer that seeks to
subdue and quiet our local blogs’ voices. While our community bloggers have
stood firm and continued to convey information and documents into the public
domain, there seems to be little doubt that the intention is to intimidate and
shut these sources of information down as Article X proceeds. [WaterTown Times]
4 comments:
The writer of that letter is a very brave women. She confronted the Marion Trieste friend and Bp wind lease holding former planning board chairman who got upset when people asked questions about wind development. The former town board members were asked to do something about his bad ways and The former Pb chair is seen on video shutting down meetings when people asked questions that was not friendly to wind development. He once held an illegal meeting and then he and other wind friendly public officials lied and said no town business was conducted. His wife was there at the meeting to. The blogger lawsuit will give many more people a chance to speak out and hear much much more about how these scrondrals did bad things to help Bp turn our town into a hellhole wind mess. Sadly the letter writer was made a target and harassed by voter for wind people and the former pb chair who I think he is a big fat bully and tried to make a big deal out of some junk to get even with her. I think voters for wind likes him to be a bully. Oh ya...and when he quit the pb he did not leave record stuff that I think might belong to the Cape citizens.
This law suit is about civil rights and I believe one or more of the plaintiffs with encouragement were trying to stop certain citizens from voting. Just one example of what might have been voter for wind voter intimidation in Cape Vincent. Before the election an old man who had owned a home in Cape Vincent for more than forty years and spent four or five months a year there received a letter from the city he lived in during the rest of the year. The letter said that since he had registered to vote in Cape Vincent he would not be able to vote at his other home. Problem was that he did not register to vote in Cape Vincent and did not intend to vote in Cape Vincent. The letter that was sent to his assessor-election board making the false claim of his intent to vote in Cape Vincent disturbed him, caused him a lot of stress and many contacts to straighten out. It was believed that his dilemma and stress caused by the Cape Vincent Democratic chair and the Voter for Wind chair of the Citizens for Fair Government sending out letters to out of town assessors of seasonal residents. The letters upset legal voters and there is a good possibility that legally registered voters were scared out of voting because of the two party chairman joining together and using irregular if not illegal methods in an attempt to get their three wind lease holders elected to the town board. I believe that Your lawsuit is about good citizens objecting to the actions of very bad public officials and political parties who appeared to be using the local government for their own self serving industrial wind partnership with Bp. Voter intimidation and scaring people from expressing an opinion politically active characters is a violation of one's civil rights. I would encourage the bloggers and members of the community to fight hard for their rights of being a seasonal resident with public intimidation and harassment from the voters for wind who were organized and supported by Bp and Marion Trieste. Perpetuating a war of prejudice against a defined group labeling them outsiders is un-American and they should be called to task. Do you know that members of voters for wind have been branding your town officials as outsiders even though every one lives in Cape Vincent, pays taxes here, and are working harder to protect the Citizens than any other wind lease holding public officials that were voter out of office?
If Harold Wiley doesn't know you,or can't remember your grandparents buying groceries at his old Red and White store, then you are an outsider. Especially if you also don't approve of local officials being able to pad their incomes by selling out to large wind developers.
Lets be honest here, our current town board members really are outsiders- that is outside of Harold's limited cirlce of acceptable folks.
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