2813 APR 22 PH f: 30
Dear Mr. Cohen,
My husband and I are long-standing residents of the Town of Lyme and volunteer in fire service, EMS, Chamber of Commerce and many other local organizations. Three generations of our family have gone to Lyme Central School. Just as our friends in Cape Vincent, we know industrial wind can help sustain our small schools.
We have read the preliminary scoping statement for the Cape Vincent Wind Farm and feel it is thorough and well done.
We are however, very concerned about the lack of a level playing field in the names being offered for the ad hoc committee.
I am enclosing a letter which was sent to each member of the Jefferson County Board of Legislators in hopes that they would encourage their legislative chairwoman Carolyn Fitzpatrick to include a person knowledgeable in local agriculture as a nominee to the siting board's ad hoc membership. We have found no evidence that the matter was ever officially discussed. Ms. Fitzpatrick simply avoided her responsibility and endorsed the very questionable names put forth by Cape Vincent Supervisor Urban Hershey.
Those who tell you that the majority of people in our two towns don't want industrial wind are incorrect. They simply yell louder and longer.
Please help us get industrial wind in our neighborhood. It's ironic that we are relying on the state to give us back the "home rule" that our two town boards continue to take away from us.
Sincerely,
Julia Gosier
28589 Empie Rd.
Three Mile Bay
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Dear Jefferson County Legislator,
I am writing to you today on behalf of the over 450 member families of the Jefferson County Farm Bureau and the board of directors that represents our membership. The Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, volunteer organization financed and controlled by member families for the purpose of solving economic and public policy issues challenging the agricultural industry and our rural communities.
As you know, the Article X permitting process empowers the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment (Siting Board) to issue Certificates of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (Certificate) authorizing the construction and operation of major electric generating facilities. This letter should serve a'i an official request by the Jefferson County Farm Bureau to have one of our members considered for a spot on the Article X Siting Board that will be reviewing the permit process tor the proposed 200 -285 Megawatt Cape Vincent Wind Farm to be located in the Town of Cape Vincent. It is our understanding dial you will have the authority to submit up to four names for consideration as "county representative" to the ad hoc committee. Our organization has surfaced two individuals that would be 'willing to serve if selected
Kurt Gehrke of Belleville and Adam Miner also of Belleville have expressed an interest to serve on the ad hoc committee as the "county representive". Kurt is the current Vice President of the county farm bureau and also a Town of Ellisburg board member. He has an extensive knowledge of town issues and the agricultural industry that would make him a valuable resource to the committees review process. Adam is currently the county farm bureau's Young Farmer Chairman and an agricultural industry professional with Poulin Grain.
The Jefferson County Farm Bureau feels strongly that the agricultural community and other land owners in the area of the proposed project would greatly benefit from having a member of the farming community as part of the review process.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions at 486-9324. Thank you for your time and consideration of our organizations request to have one of our members names put forth for a position on this review committee.
Sincerely,
Roger E. Eastman
JCFB President
16 comments:
Ms Fitzpatrick did not avoid the issue. Ms. Fitzpatrick acted responsibly by reading the Article 10 rules that Ms. Gosier and Mr. Eastman failed to review and consider.
Had Gosier and Eastman read the rules they would have been aware that one of the requirements of a nominee to sit as a ad hoc member of the Siting Board is that they reside in the municipality targeted by an applicant. The two names proposed by Eastman and endorsed by Gosier both live in Bellville, which is as far removed from Cape Vincent and Lyme as you can get.
I think members of VFW should spend as much time reading reports, educational materials and Article 10 rules as they do reading their lease agreements and counting their money. If they would, then maybe they would not have written two ill-informed and ill-advised letters that only wasted our time and our elected officials time.
That's Julia Gosier for you. Ill informed. She is the same person who wanted the JCIDA to deny local taxing jurisdictions the right to vote on PILOTs. Julia also complained that the Cape was spending money on legal council while at the same time voters for wind were holding pig roasts so they could sue the towns and residents.
Every time I hear the desperate cry of a voter for wind claiming they are long standing residents a little vomit rises into my throat.
Why is Ms. Gosier crying foul? Wasn't she one of the prinicpals in VFW who used BP oil money to sue the Town of Lyme over their wind law? At least that is what Trieste Associates claims in NYSERDA supported documents. How can she and VFW complain when they have had unlimited financial resources to buy off officials, sue town governments and hold mock educational forums, whose only redeeming social value were moderately good pizza?
Hopefully not all 450 member families of the farm bureau have so little regard for their neighbors that they would destroy the home values and life styles with money grubbing industrial wind. If so, shame on them.
She doesn't even know how to spell his name.
Urban T. HIRSCHEY
If we wanted or needed a dumb farmer to represent our community, we have plenty to pick from right here in our home town, who are longstanding residents as well. If the Belleville farmers are anything like the Cape farmers,the only likely contribution they would make to the debate would be something on the order of-"gee we sure could use the extra dough to help keep our farm in the family"
Thanks a lot though Julia, your conern is heartwarming. Incidentally in case you haven't read it anywhere yet in your farm bureau handouts, the project being proposed for cape vincent is an industrial scale commercial wind turbine generating complex.
Nothing agricultural about it by any stretch of the imagination. Picking a farmer to sit on a siting review board would be as dumb as asking a seeing eye dog to select a color to paint your maure spreader. And we all know dogs are color blind.
Ya know Julia, I think maybe you were in Marion Trieste's mind when she labeld this area as "Little Apalachia"
why don't you do the whole region a favor and keep a lower profile.
I would counter this accusation by Mrs. gosier, by saying chairwoman Fitzpatrick took the most sensible, responsible,action possible by endorsing the choices made by the two communities involved. any other action would have put the county in a position similar to the State's- trying to interfere with the principle of self-governing autonomy.
Considering her past actions,I guess that would be preferable to Julia.
Kudo's to Chairwoman Fitzpatrick.
It is about time that Julia and the rest of the voters for wind realize that they are embarrassing themselves by standing up at town meetings and claiming that our public officials are outsiders, rich retirees, newcomers, and incapable of making the proper decisions regarding wind. The full support given to our respectable town by all of the agreeing agencies should give Julia and the gang green an indication that our Lyme officials and the Cape are on the right track. Julia we are sick of the prejudice that voters for wind continue to breed in our Lake and River community.
I want my money! I want my money, dammit!
Loss of home rule? Give us a break. What Julie is getting at is the seasonal homeowners who pay the majority of the taxes in Lyme and Cape Vincent (75%) in her eyes should not have the right to vote.
It is nothing more than bigotry. I think it has already been there, but when you read Marion Trieste's webinar it appears that Marion culivated that bigotry when she warned that the NJ and Long Island types might take their wind away. Remember Tom Rienbecks famous it sucks speach and the early voter for wind references to the wine and cheese set. Don't that sound like a Bp organizer plan?
Is Marion Trieste part of Rienbeck's over the hill gang, and is she just another over the hill gang member trying to look hot? Ask yourself, would you want to share a pizza in a quiet little Italian restaurant sitting across from Trieste Associates? Answers - YES and NO.
I hear on the street that Tom is pissed about part timers getting water on the river road even though he is now a part timer hisself.
Ms. Gosier tell us.
How is Article X working out for you so far?
Are you surprised that there may be some fairness and rational thinking built into the system?
Was the voter for wind attempt to take away jurisdictional and personal rights to vote on industrial wind matters a failure?
Assy. Member and Power NY sponsor Kevin Cahill told Jefferson County that a major reason for Article X was that developers were town shopping and some local governments had become corrupt with wind. Does that ring a bell? Corruption? Cape Vincent? Are you getting it now?
Addie Russell warned that because of Article X we will not get wind. Is that because Article X is fair and responsible? Remember, Addie also said there were enough smaller, less impacting projects proposed in New York State that will achieve our green energy goal. Remember smart people said all along that the Golden Crescent and the Thousand Islands was the wrong place for your wind. I think your Voters for Wind spent too much time calling them liars and suing them when they should have been proving them wrong.
Remember, most of your wind progress was only achieved because of the actions of wind lease corrupt public officials who were not including the best interests of the community. Now it appears that even the more powerful and rational government agencies are saying that Lyme-Cape wind development should start right from the beginning.
Despite what voters for wind claim in nearly every public meeting like the Jefferson County Community College meeting, the Lyme - Cape Town officials are competent, smart, diligent and are going about this in the right way. So is the County and Albany.
Your personal attack on Ms. Fitzpatrick was deplorable and demonstrated your ignorance about how well our honorable county legislators work together. Assuming that Carolyn of all people avoided her responsibility is ludicrous.
This is a serious charge on your part and it does deserve serious rebuttal by the Jefferson County community.
6:26
Don't be a fool. I have been up close. Lipstick on a pig comes to mind.
7:47?
Will the loss of home rule claim be the Aubertine, Dem, CFCG and Voter for Wind's newest take back the Cape political scam? They have already distributed an old letter that they are using to infer that a Tibbetts Point couple committed voter fraud. It has already started and Aubertine's says he will be back. Is he really serious about working hard in government or in it for the the keggers? Last year he claimed wind development was behind us and he was going to sit on the board and heal the community. He works in the seasonal trade. I hope he is smart enough not to get caught up in the prejudicial campaign against those who pay 75% of the taxes in our town. The last time he attended a town meeting he and a cousin sat there and giggled like school children at the Hirschey town board which was just proven by state agencies to be very correct in their concerns about the Bee Pee PSS.
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