A recent survey showed that 84 percent of county residents support wind energy. This pro-wind majority needs to keep an eye out for the anti-wind sneaking around in county committees trying to push through their anti-wind agendas.
Take, for example, Urban Hirschey, who for some reason was recently appointed chair of the Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency. Urban also appointed himself chair of Cape Vincent's anti-wind group. Adding more of a conflict of interest, he's also the town supervisor. But most Cape residents know Urban received more votes than his incumbent only because anti-wind groups registered nonresident family members to their Cape addresses.
As chair of the JCIDA, it seems Urban is being coached by the anti-wind groups to push through an anti-wind agenda, undermining the IDA's real purpose. JCIDA member Kent Burto could see through all this. Burto's quote in the newspaper: "What I see is a town that doesn't have control because of the mix of the board and because of that, there are fears and because of those fears, they are looking to the IDA board to resolve them."
Why are certain people in the anti-wind minority so committed to undermining the county's pro-wind majority? Because they don't like things that are new and different. They don't like all taxpaying county residents benefiting equally from wind development. They only like things that exclusively fatten their already fat wallets.
The anti-wind love to call the pro-wind majority ignorant, but notice the ads the anti-wind groups put out. The anti-wind never suggest you go to the library and talk to a librarian about how to find unbiased research. Instead the anti-wind say the only research you should do is visiting certain websites, and these websites are just anti-wind bloggers with zero credentials in any of the things they are talking about. So who are the ignorant ones here?
On the blogs, all the anti-wind talk about is who they hate for being a renewable energy supporter, and how they can get others to hate these people too. The renewable energy supporters are decent hard-working people, but the anti-wind just talk about how they can ruin their lives.
Right now, the main goal of the anti-wind is wearing down the decent, hard-working community-minded pro-renewable energy people to the point of giving in. But they won't succeed.
Harvey White
Cape Vincent
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In this letter Harvey White suggests that Urban Hirschey should not have been appointed the chairman of the JCIDA because he is also the supervisor for the Town of Cape Vincent. He complains this constitutes a conflict of interest.
Harvey White still fails to realize that benefiting financially is the crux of any conflict of interest.
Harvey, let us explain, by example, what constitutes a real conflict of interest. If you are elected Town Supervisor and still have contracts with BP and Acciona, you cannot discuss or vote on wind matters, because you will be receiving money from both of these companies. You would not have a conflict of interest because you belong to Voters for Wind or because you might be a member the New York Artificial Breeders Association.
Harvey White can't be this stupid, he's a lot smarter than this letter suggests. What I want to know is who is advising him and the Masons that they can just thumb their noses as ethics, fairness, and honesty by ignoring their conflicts of interest? Who is the man or woman behind the curtain who is pulling the strings of the Cape's wind puppets? Who?
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