Steve Deslauriers column:
DENMARK — The wind energy industry is today’s “big tobacco.” Big tobacco fabricated studies, denied the truth and tirelessly pushed lies upon the American people at the grave expense of the health and lives of the American people.
For decades, big tobacco successfully suppressed the inconvenient truth that smoking harms people’s health. The wind development industry closely follows big tobacco’s deception playbook — taking advantage of people’s best intentions to protect our environment as they desperately cling to outdated and inaccurate studies.[Greenbaypressgazette]
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Years back we all remember the Big Tobacco CEOs sitting behind a long table telling a Congressional investigative committee that they believed there was no link between smoking and cancer. We all laughed and thought these were the only guys on the planet who were in complete denial of the facts. Of course, we all knew their jobs and livelihood required they take those ridiculous positions.
Fast forward to October 2012 to the little town of Cape Vincent. In a much smaller venue we hear Big Wind's Richard Chandler claiming he has community support for his corner-to-corner, 124-turbine disaster plan for Cape Vincent.
You could almost see the smoke coming out from his ears, going back to the tobacco analogy. Actually, any smoke discovered that day was undoubtedly coming from Chandler's pants - liar, liar pants on fire.
To claim BP had community support to all of those town officials who were put in office to cut the tie between town government and Big Wind was an absurdity. It was an intellectual affront to all who attended. It was secular blasphemy!
Actually, I smelled something in the air that night when BP squirmed and regurgitated their promotional propoganda. It wasn't smoke, it was something we haven't smelled in Cape Vincent in six years - I smelled Victory!
When I was a kid the tobacco salesman would stand in front of Horton's store and hand out the little sample packs. When no adults were in site, he would sneak us kids a handful. Bp's community organizer gets school kids to make little wind wheels and teaches them to hug turbines. I believe that the claim that they are green is a scam. I also believe that voters for wind using the saving of the school as a reason for their making money and messing up CV is pig poop. Every time I think of tobacco and big wind, a little vomit rises into my throat.
7: 14 "I smelled victory"
You may be jumping the gun a little thinking you smelled victory. What you smelled was more likely the stench of the corruption of ART. X., that Chandler is going to utilize to offset any lack of community support for his project in Cape Vincent.
What you mistook for uncomfortable squirming was more likely an inability on Chandler's part to contain his excitement over his PIP going so well, -according to plan.
The arrogant bureaucracy of ART. is comforting to BP and R Chandler. His lack of respect for the community and its members is evident every time he refuses to answer any question. He doesn't have to answer to anyone except Andrew Cuomo, whose pocket he has adequately padded.
When Cuomo becomes preseident,he will likely appoint Richard Chandler as his energy czar as payback. One hand washing the other as time progesses.
This is hardly victory for Cape Vincent, at least not at this point in time.
11:39
Ever watch those movies where the big slimy corporations send in people who pretend to be against them but actually do stuff like you do to subvert?
How much does that job pay?
When Bp's Peter Gross was in the area a year ago he told a public official that a lot of bad things were being told on the blogs and Bp had to "get it's message out". Keep in mind that often what one side of an issue perceives as "bad things" may actually be the truth. Voters for Wind have a history of publicly harassing the blogs and claiming that they were telling half truths. Voters for Wind wrote letters to the papers and made public statements that appeared to be threats and attempts to deprive people of their civil right to freedom of speech. I thnk It is likely that voters for wind and Trieste were cyber stalking the bloggers and commenters and in a paranoiac state were recognizing that the factual information about the horrors of wind development was damaging to Bp's PIP. Not the kind of PIP they wanted the PSC to rubber stamp. More than once VFW informants commented to me that something had to be done about those blogs. It is common belief and very likely that the law suit against the bloggers and the community commenting and providing information to the bloggers was endorsed, perhaps encouraged and supported by Trieste Associates who Bp gives credit to in their PIP. The plaintiffs in the Cape Vincent lawsuit against the anti-wind community have said they are members of voters for wind and citizens for good government. The chairman of the citizens for good government was also one of the founders of voters for wind and according to the Times had teamed up with the Cape democratic chair when they passed a petition claiming voter irregularities that never existed and was then used by Harold Wiley to get Donnie Mason to propose and pass and illegal voter law that many citizens believed was a violation of their civil rights. Then, Gary King of Voters for Wind and Harold Wiley of the Democratic party teamed up to send letters to assessors of out of town property owners who they thought would vote against Mason and Mason. Those letters did cause problems and worry for the assessors as well as the legally registered voters who had done nothing wrong.
I firmly believe that what voters for wind and the chairs of the two political parties had the approval and perhaps even resources of Bp and the community organizer and as agents and friends of Bp should be included in the Bp PIP as one of their ways they have educated our community.
5:34 think and say whatever you like, just try to keep a grip on reality when you say things like " I smelled victory for Cape Vincent"
wouldn't hurt to open your eyes maybe a little bit wider, or maybe remove the rose colored lenses from your glasses.
Sometimes we just hear what we want to hear, not what is really being said.
You're so good at seeing through to the real truth, why is BP still here, if things are going so against them, and what the hell do you even mean by "subvert"
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