Daniel Foley CEO of Acciona Energy North America Says... "The solution is to build it where your welcome."

Residents Welcoming Acciona to Cape Vincent,NY

I have used excerpts from a transcript of a CNBC video interview with Daniel Foley CEO of Acciona Energy North America for the post below.
This interview was taped during the week of the annual renewable energy technology conference that was held in Washington DC over the week of September 19, 2011.

link here to watch the video and/or read the complete written transcript of the CNBC video interview.
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CNBC Reporter A: "most people that I know don’t want it in their back yard, even if they want to reap the benefits of having that wind farm, what are your solutions there, what do you propose to those folks that sort of want to have their cake and eat it too".

Foley : “Well, I think that there are folks that don’t want it in their back yard but, there are plenty of folks in Oklahoma and Kansas and North Dakota that use their land to make money and a wind farm it’s really a windfall, it’s a cash crop for these folks, ah , we do pay the farmers we do pay the local community in taxes ya know in , in the days where school districts are really struggling for money this is a huge windfall for the community and it, it , like I said in places like Oklahoma were welcome there ,we, we find very little opposition and so I think that the solution is to build it where your welcome". "Build it where folks use their land to make money and, and, welcome you into the community.”

CNBC Reporter B: "How many sites have you got up and running at the moment where you haven’t received a subsidy to build them ?"

Foley : “Ah well I think that the ah production tax credit is , is , utilized in the US and so all of our wind farms have been, have utilized that , that tax credit on a go forward basis ah we will not ,on a go forward basis without the subsidy.” “In the new technology which will be commercialized in, in, ah ready for commercial operation 2014, 2015 ah those subsidies won’t be needed the levelized costs of the ah, wind has come down to the point where those subsidies won’t be needed.” “For the time being for 2013, 2014, if we do not continue the PT C it will destroy are ah, supply chain and we will go limping into a period of time when were needed.” “If you look, ah there is there’s reports out there that say that there’s going to be substantial turn down in coal and ah nuke plants.” “ In coal we’re hearing between 40,000 and 100,000 megawatts of turn down and what we’d like to do is , is go in to the period where were going to need to replace some of those coal plants with a strong supply chain and without that subsidy.” “Um, in 2012 and 2013, were gonna limp into the, to, to a period where the nation really needs us to ah, supplement the infrastructure.”
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Foley predicts our energy future as one that will be dependent upon the success of their wind technology development. To say that we must support Acciona’s technological development with subsides because we may need these technologies in the future is ridiculous. When the wind industry collapses, will he then say we need to subsidize Acciona because it is too large to fail, because the economic implications would devastate our economy?

Acciona, is a company that prides itself on being an international company, which develops and manages activities focused on contributing to social welfare and sustainable development.

However the reality is that Acciona cannot sustain their development of industrial wind projects without subsidies…

Nearly 35% of Acciona’s wind energy instillations are built outside of Spain.
The only reason that Acciona’s St. Lawrence wind project has been able to progress to the point that it has in our community is that it has been sustained by corruption. Acciona came into our community like thieves in the night signing up select municipal officers to wind leases and creating conflicts of interests. These municipal officers have played a key role in moving Acciona’s project along.

A tiny percentage of our population has been driving the wind developments in Cape Vincent. The majority of the residents of Cape Vincent do not want our community to be industrialized by noisy Wind Turbines.
Additionally, the results of a wind turbine survey in the neighboring town of Lyme were recently tabulated. The results were clear that Wind development is not wanted anywhere in Lyme. The Lyme Town Council recognizes that Wind development is not wanted in their community and subsequently extended their wind development moratorium. However, Acciona’s project manager Timothy Q. Conboy appears to be unable to comprehend the concept of respecting citizens’ rights ,as he weighed in with the following statements "Lyme has had ample opportunity to enact a local law," he said. "Extending the moratorium is fundamentally unfair to project sponsors and those who wish to see wind power."

Foley said built it where you’re welcome.
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Mr. Foley how soon
Will Acciona be leaving Cape Vincent?