Clean Energy ~ A Dirty Business That Requires Subsidies to Start Up & Corruption to Sustain.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Many landowners don’t want wind project
Residents in the towns of Clayton, Orleans, Lyme and Brownville better get involved before it’s too late! Foreign-owned industrial wind giant Iberdrola/Atlantic Wind is back with a massive project that would involve all four towns.Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Time to regroup and defend against Big Wind
Like a freshening breeze that becomes a steady blow, the move to turn northeastern Jefferson County into one giant wind generation facility has roared perforce back to life.
Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times
Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Clayton proposes banning industrial turbines in reaction to Horse Creek wind project
CLAYTON — Signaling its opposition to the Horse Creek wind project, the Town Council will consider replacing current wind laws with one that would completely ban industrial wind projects and the construction of wind measurement towers. Continue reading via this link to the watertown daily times
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Limits on tax breaks: Jefferson County should set standards for how incentives offered
Don Alexander- CEO of the JCIDA & Wind developer Bill Moore |
Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Can New York force FitzPatrick to stay open?
If the owner of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant refuses to keep the facility open, can the state force it to? That's the question after FitzPatrick owner Entergy has rejected several offers to help keep the financially stressed plant from closing in January. The company says it's too late, but some think the state may not need Entergy's approval. Continue reading via this link to WRVO
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Iberdrola preparing to launch Article 10 process for Horse Creek wind project in ‘very near future’
Maple Ridge ~ WF |
Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times
Friday, March 4, 2016
Clayton ~ Iberdrola Has Posted a New Conflict of Interest Disclosure For Horse Creek Wind
The information concerning Horse Creek conflicts of interest was posted on the Internet by Iberdrola 24 hours ago.
Below are links to lease agreements for the now defunct Cape Vincent Wind Project
click here to view BP Wind Lease agreement
click here to view BP Wind Lease Good Neighbor agreement
click here to view Acciona lease agreement
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It is important to disclose financial conflicts of interest because typically wind companies have a loyalty clause in their wind leases that contractually binds lease holders to “fully cooperate”. with the developer to get their project approved.
Below is an excerpt from a Wind Lease for the now defunct Cape Vincent wind projects.
“Owner shall assist and fully cooperate with Grantee, at no out-of-pocket expense to owner, in complying with or obtaining any land use permits and approvals, tax-incentive or tax-abatement program approvals, building permits, environmental impact reviews, or any other permits or approvals required for the financing, construction, installation, relocation, replacement, maintenance, operation or removal of Wind Power Facilities in the Project (whether located on the Property, on adjacent property, or elsewhere), including execution of applications for such permits or approvals if required. In connection with any application for such approvals, Owner agrees at Grantee's request to support such application (at no out-of-pocket expense to Owner) at any administrative, judicial, or legislative level. In the event that any laws, rules, regulations or ordinances of any governmental agency provide for setbacks or otherwise restrict the location of any Windpower Facilities to be installed on the Property or adjacent properties, Owner shall cooperate with Grantee in obtaining waivers of such setbacks and shall execute any documents reasonable requested by Grantee to evidence Owner's waiver of such setbacks.”
Below are links to lease agreements for the now defunct Cape Vincent Wind Project
click here to view BP Wind Lease agreement
click here to view BP Wind Lease Good Neighbor agreement
click here to view Acciona lease agreement
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The Jefferson County Board of ethics has already weighed in on wind conflicts of interest. Below is a screenshot of their conclusion
Links below to JCBOE opinions
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Assemblyman Wants Investigation into
North Country Water Issues
Albany,N.Y.-- North Country Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush says playing the blame game will get towns in desperate need of clean water nowhere.
“If,in fact the salt is coming from the DOT, then it’s the state’s problem and the state should fix it,” Blankenbush said.”The state should pay for it.
But before I say that,before I do that,we have to put an investigation to make sure that that’s exactly what the problem is.”
Dozens of houses evacuated over toxic hazard as train derails in Ripley,NY
A train has derailed near the town of Ripley, New York State, officials said, adding that two of the derailed cars were carrying ethanol, which is currently leaking. Dozens of homes in the area have been evacuated.
The incident took place on Norfolk-Southern rails on Tuesday night, the NY Fire Department told Erie News. The train was pulling 33 cars, 14 of which derailed, the Norfolk Southern spokesperson said. The Chautauqua County Sheriff's office, however, said 18 cars derailed.Continue reading via this link to RTTuesday, March 1, 2016
Pinpointing the Health Impacts of Urban Noise
Researcher Erica Walker wants to change the way cities think about their aural landscapes.
“Noise is insidious,” she says. “It affects you acutely, but also long-term. This is something that people don’t really talk about, but something people really suffer from.”
Continue reading via this link to CITYLAB
Transporting oil via pipelines carries risks
The MV Juno a cargo ship carrying sugar from the Bahamas
ran aground near the Thousand Islands Bridge last April.
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In response to Wednesday’s editorial, “Cruising to Disaster,” Save the River would like to express our enthusiastic support of the editors’ position on the dangers and inappropriate risks of winter navigation on the St. Lawrence River. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times
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