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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…