We must not let the "idea " of clean renewable energy cloud our ability to use concrete information to base our decisions on.

This is a recent letter posted on the Public Service commission website

Article X's creation I believe was to involve Albany in doing what is in the best interest of our state, thus expenditure of our limited financial state resources on industrial wind turbines either land or water based is not justified.

 A thorough review of the literature by the state will reveal from an economic stand point the energy they produce is too costly for the current economic environment of our country. I think the majority of Americans would agree we are barely able to afford the electricity at the current prices. Why then would we develop alternative energy sources that drive prices up?

 Our area is primarily supplied by nuclear & hydro at the present time, coal is minimal. As an area we are doing a good job w/ efficient energy already.

 We must not let the "idea " of clean renewable energy cloud our ability to use concrete information to base our decisions on. If the math & science point to wind energy not being cost effective for our state to invest in then it is the obligation of article X to protect our financial resources.

 The large powerful wind companies and their lucrative investors present wind energy w/ rose colored filter playing on Americans desire to do the right thing.

We need to be smart enough to realize they are not pushing wind energy on our communities because they care about us or our financial well being. Like any company selling a product their chief objective is to make money.

 I think the private residents who are proponents of wind development fail to realize a large percentage of that profit comes out of our state budget. I employ the state to protect our state finances from this scam.

 With recent deal passed re: the fiscal cliff & the continuation of the PTC it will continue to make industrial wind energy a lucrative venture for these large companies.

 I live in area where a company called Ridgeline Energy has been pressuring our community to approve a small scale wind project  for over three years. They have been relentless even though the community has studied this proposition coming to the conclusion that the majority of its residents do not feel it is in our communities best interest. They have deep financial backing to persevere with their quest to put in a project that will provide them significant profit. For a small town it has been a financially draining battle. This includes; Ridgeline filing a lawsuit against the town when a law was developed that would not allow industrial wind energy development, Ridgeline changing the project size to meet the minimum megawatt criteria for Article X to possibly override local law, the towns need to hire additional costly attorney to address the specifically wind energy.

 Please protect our state's financial resources & national treasures such as the Thousand Island Region from the pressures of large wind companies, often not even US based, to make large profits at our expense.

These comments have been limited to the financial implausibility. A thorough review of the topic would also include: potential health affects of siting industrial turbines in residential areas, reliability of energy source & actual useful impact on base or peak energy demands, actual reduction in carbon vs carbon emission in production of turbines & site development, actual useful energy production vs rated online capacity, realistic life expectancy vs. cost investment of the turbines.


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