Monday, March 16, 2009

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE






T.I. CENTRAL MEETING: Speakers focus on issues of electric grid, setbacks, noise
By NANCY MADSEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008


The speakers were Steven C. Sullivan, managing director of GEOS Global and consultant to BP Alternative Energy; John Droz, scientist and environmental activist from Brantingham Lake, and Paul E. Carr, engineering professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, and a founder of Bernier, Carr & Associates.


Voters for Wind and British Petroleum both use Geos Global as consultants. Firms like Geos Global charge thousands of dollars for their services. How can voters for wind a “grass roots’’ citizens organization afford to pay for such sophisticated services? Is Steven C. Sullivan, managing director of GEOS Global so dedicated to the cause that he has decided to donate his services and those of the Geos Global staff? What makes this incestuous relationship between British Petroleum, Voters for wind and the Geos Global group an issue, is that Beth White is a member of voters for wind and she is on Cape Vincent’s wind committee. Why not just put a British Petroleum representative on the wind committee! No wait a minute maybe they already have…

Monday, March 9, 2009

New views of Wolfe Island from Cape Vincent

The closest turbines in these pictures are 2.5 miles away!




Friday, March 6, 2009

Cape Vincent Wind Power Project


Map of combined wind projects proposed for Cape Vincent

WHAT WILL CAPE VINCENTS FATE BE?

Notice of Acceptance of Draft EIS and Public Hearing
Jefferson County - The Town of Cape Vincent Planning Board, as lead agency, has accepted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Cape Vincent Wind Power Project. A public hearing on the Draft EIS will be held on January 26, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. at the REC Park, 602, South James Street, Cape Vincent, NY. Written comments on the Draft EIS will be accepted until February 29, 2008. The action involves a proposed wind-powered generating facility of up to 140 wind turbines having a combined total maximum Project capacity of up to 210 megawatts. The Project will also include access roads, buried and aboveground electric cable, a substation, an operation and maintenance facility, and construction-related facilities including two temporary concrete batch plants. The Project is located approximately two miles southeast of the Village of Cape Vincent and six miles northwest of the Village of Chaumont, New York.

Contact: Richard J. Edsall, Town of Cape Vincent Planning Board, P.O. Box 915, Cape Vincent, NY 13618, Phone: (315) 654-3885.

This can also be linked at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/20080102_not6.html

Draft Environmental Impact Statement Town of Cape Vincent
Jefferson County, New York
December 2007