Mr. Hirschey had “no legitimate chance of winning. I emphasize legitimate.” Says Alan Wood

Democratic Candidate for
Supervisor Alan Wood 

Mr. Wood said Thursday that he is confident the race won’t be swung by absentees, in part because he and his supporters have been diligent in challenging absentees. The group has focused on those probably sent by vacation-property owners on the lake and river shores.

For example, one that his supporters challenged was from an owner of a vacant lot on Carleton Island.

Mr. Wood said that in his view, Mr. Hirschey had “no legitimate chance of winning. I emphasize legitimate.”

By PERRY WHITE

TIMES CITY EDITOR

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013

 While Cape Vincent residents await final certification of election results pending a final count of absentee ballots, the incumbents, all of whom are aligned with the forces against wind power, are facing numbers that should cause them concern. Continue...

BP Wind to Divest U.S. Wind Energy Development Projects by Year's End

 

SUGAR LAND--November 14, 2013--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--BP Wind's (NYSE:BP) (London, England) plans to divest its U.S. wind energy development portfolio were put on hold in July of this year. But the company is now seeking to divest its wind energy business by the end of 2013, and it has submitted a notice to the New York Public Service Commission about its plans. These plans include the potential sale of its 285-megawatt (MW) Cape Vincent wind project. Continue...

"Unprecedented" Challenges In Cape Vincent Supervisor Race

Republican Board of Elections Deputy Commissioner Jerry Eaton estimated one-third of the ballots were being challenged.

The challenges were to the ballots themselves as well as the envelopes in which they were mailed, Eaton said.

Eaton called the challenges "unprecedented." 7 Fox News WWNYTV

  Cape Vincent Democratic leadership has brought in TOP GUN lawyer (Frank Hoare) from Albany with the appointed task of killing seasonal  absentee votes  

Second suspect charged for alleged windmill shooting

State police charged a second person in connection with the shooting of a wind turbine in the town of Martinsburg. Continue...

AUGUST 16, 2011 Watertown Times Editorial The illegal attempt by a three-member majority of the Cape Vincent Town Council to limit voting

The Cape Vincent Democrats have a history of attempting to deny seasonal tax payers

their right to vote

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011

The illegal attempt by a three-member majority of the Cape Vincent Town Council to limit voting is reminiscent of the literacy tests and poll taxes used to keep black people and other minorities from exercising their constitutional right to vote.

In a town bitterly divided over wind power, the three members of the board supporting a controversial wind-power development rammed through without any prior legal consultation a resolution requiring voters to show their state driver’s licenses with a Cape Vincent address to vote in next month’s primary and the Nov. 8 election. A provision permits election officials to waive the identification requirement for someone they know. The resolution is aimed at blocking seasonal residents from changing their addresses in order to have a voice in the dispute through the ballot.

Continue reading the rest of the story at this link

UPDATE~ DEMOCRATS BRING IN HOARE TO INSPECT ABSENTEE BALLOTS

The Democrats have brought in TOP GUN lawyer (Frank Hoare) from Albany with the appointed task of killing seasonal  absentee votes. 

  Before joining the firm Featherstonhaugh, Wiley & Clyne in August of 2008, Mr.Hoare worked as an aide to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Hoare, 51, lives in Rensselaer with his companion Cathy Calhoun, an aide to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
link here to read Mr. Hoare's profile.

Town of Cape Vincent Election Results Absentee Ballot Count Not counting 100 challenged absentee Ballots

This vote tally was reported to me at 5:05 PM 11,13,2013  this count does not include  approximately 100 absentee ballots being challenged over residency issues .

   

                      The results below are the count from the polls + absentee ballots = tentative total:

Urban Hirschey:  426 +143 = 569

Alan Wood      :  501 + 56  = 557

Paul Aubertine :  542 + 59  = 601

Dennis Pearson:  497 + 62  = 559

Brooks Bragdon:  406 +138 = 544

Michelle Oswald: 386 +133 =  519

Again, all totals are preliminary and the final count won't be available for three days.

Cape Vincent absentee tally subject to several challenges

The unofficial tally of absentee ballots from hotly contested races in the town of Cape Vincent may be delayed by at least three days due to a large number of challenges, according to Board of Elections officials.

Huddled around a table in the Jefferson County Board of Elections office, members of both the Democratic and Republican parties are inspecting ballots cast in races for town supervisor and two town council seats and raising numerous challenges to both ballots and envelopes. Continue...

Crowd Gathers For Cape Vincent Vote Count

The room was crowded at the Jefferson County Board of Elections as absentee ballots were counted in the race for Cape Vincent town supervisor.

The ballots were being opened and even a magnifying glass used to inspect them. Continue...

High bat mortality from wind turbines

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:

8-Nov-2013

American Institute of Biological Sciences 

More than 600,000 of the mammals may have died in 2012 in the contiguous United States

A new estimate of bat deaths caused by wind turbines concludes that more than 600,000 of the mammals likely died this way in 2012 in the contiguous United States. The estimate, published in an article in BioScience, used sophisticated statistical techniques to infer the probable number of bat deaths at wind energy facilities from the number of dead bats found at 21 locations, correcting for the installed power capacity of the facilities.

Bats, although not widely loved, play an important role in the ecosystem as insect-eaters, and also pollinate some plants. They are killed at wind turbines not only by collisions with moving turbine blades, but also by the trauma resulting from sudden changes in air pressure that occur near a fast-moving blade. The article by Mark Hayes of the University of Colorado notes that 600,000 is a conservative estimate; the actual figure could be 50 percent higher. The estimate is in rough agreement with some previous estimates, but bigger than most. The data that Hayes analyzed also suggest that some areas of the country might experience much higher bat fatality rates at wind energy facilities than others: the Appalachian Mountains have the highest estimated fatality rates in Hayes's analysis.

The consequences of deaths at wind energy facilities for bat populations are hard to assess because there are no high quality estimates of the population sizes of most North American bat species. But Hayes notes that bat populations are already under stress because of climate change and disease, in particular white-nose syndrome. The new estimate is therefore worrisome, especially as bat populations grow only very slowly, with most species producing only one young per year.

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BioScience, published monthly, is the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS; http://www.aibs.org). BioScience is a forum for integrating the life sciences that publishes commentary and peer-reviewed articles. The journal has been published since 1964. AIBS is a meta-level organization for professional scientific societies and organizations that are involved with biology. It represents nearly 160 member societies and organizations. The article by Hayes can be accessed ahead of print as an uncorrected proof at http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/ until early December.

The complete list of peer-reviewed articles in the December 2013 issue of BioScience is as follows. These are now published ahead of print.

Rough Trade: Animal Welfare in the Global Wildlife Trade by Sandra E. Baker, Russ Cain, Freya van Kesteren, Zinta A. Zommers, Neil D'Cruze, and David W. Macdonald

A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Analysis of Multifactorial Land Mammal Colonization of Islands by Paul P. A . Mazza, Sandro Lovari, Federico Masini, Marco Masseti, and Marco Rustioni

Managing Multiple Vectors for Marine Invasions in an Increasingly Connected World by Susan L. Williams, Ian C. Davidson, Jae R. Pasari, Gail V. Ashton, James T. Carlton, R. Eliot Crafton, Rachel E. Fontana, Edwin D. Grosholz, A. Whitman Miller, Gregory M. Ruiz, and Chela J. Zabin

Safety in Numbers? Abundance May Not Safeguard Corals from Increasing Carbon Dioxide by Charles Birkeland, Margaret W. Miller, Gregory A. Piniak, C. Mark Eakin, Mariska Weijerman, Paul McElhany, Matthew Dunlap, and Russell E. Brainard

Bats Killed in Large Numbers at United States Wind Energy Facilities by Mark A. Hayes.

link to original

US wind turbines kill over 600,000 bats a year (and plenty of birds too)

Wind turbines killed hundreds of thousands of bats in 2012 in the United States, according to an article by Mark Hayes of the University of Colorado. Hayes took the number of dead bats from 21 wind turbine locations and inferred the number of nationwide bat deaths, arriving at the conservative estimate of 600,000 bats killed in 2012. But the real toll, Hayes notes, may be as high as 900,000.   

Bats are killed by collisions with wind turbine blades or from air pressure changes caused by the blades, the latter being the real danger. Similar to the bends in scuba divers, barotrauma causes bats to pop from the inside. Continue...

Novenber 5th re- elect Michelle Bouchard Town of Cape Vincent Town Clerk

Michelle Bouchard is running for re-election as Town of Cape Vincent Town Clerk .  October 10, 2013 a  meet the candidates event was held at rec park, Michelle spoke about her many accomplishments as Town Clerk.

 What Michelle had to say ~

Good evening, I am Michelle Bouchard the incumbent candidate for Town Clerk.
I am a military brat , my father was a Marine and true Grunt. He and my mother instilled in my brothers , sister and I to honor , respect and to have discipline. These characteristics I adhere to in my professional career.

I was elected three years ago as Town Clerk and came into office under very  stressful circumstances.
These challenges I met, I restored integrity and brought back trust to the position. I cleaned the office, moved the furnature around and made the office more inviting to the public. I installed a drop box so law enforcement and residents are able to drop things off for  the judges, assessor, zoning officer,
supervisor and clerk. making the Town Office building accessible 24/7.

I am actively involved with the county Clerks association and was able to hold a dinner meeting here in Cape Vincent. The first for Cape Vincent . I also chaired a Clerk of the year committee for our Region and was
successful in having Mary Smith , Town Clerk for the Town of leRay honored as Clerk of the year for our Region by the State Clerks association.
I contacted Addie Russell to entice her to have one of her rediscovering  your backyard events here in
Cape Vincent. And together with Shelly Higgins we have had two very successful Escape to the Cape
events
I helped create a new Town website and I am now the "Webmaster".
 In 2011 NYS decided that it would no longer issue dog licenses and because of my past experience in dog insurance I was able to institute a system for renewals and new licenses.

I have been in contact with the DEC and offered Cape Vincent as a training location for all license

issuing agents. In two weeks , here in this room all license issuing agents in Jefferson County will be

trained on the new system. This is not just town clerks but marinas, and sporting good stores that issue licenses.

For the future I will become a notary . I have taken a notary prep course and have taken the exam

and I am waiting to hear the results . This is a service that I can provide at the office.

I will offer to collect second and third installments on your property taxes . If this is an option you choose. I will be able to collect at the office. You will no longer have to pay the County . With three years of collection experience under my belt , I know it is time to offer these services.

Lastly, I am 12 points away from becoming a Registered Municipal Clerk. I will sign my name Michele, RMC. This certification comes from experience and education. I have attended training classes, and seminars . I will be the first Cape Vincent Town Clerk to receive this certification.

Thank you

BP Wind Energy Seeking To Sell Development Portfolio By Year-End

Although the company halted plans to sell its wind energy business in July, BP is still actively seeking to divest its entire U.S. development portfolio by year-end. In fact, the company recently submitted a notice to the New York Public Service Commission about its plans, including the potential sale of its 285 MW Cape Vincent wind project. Continue...

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BP announcs divestment plans, no details. Continue...

BP is CREEPY THEY BUILD ON THE CHEAPY

Off-year ballots have municipal focus

Voters across the north country will head to the polls Tuesday in an off-year election that will focus on local county and municipal officials.

Important town contests in Jefferson County include Cape Vincent, where a full slate of pro-wind farm candidates are challenging the incumbent supervisor and two councilmen .  Continue...

Cape officials continue to face backlash over proposed Water District 6 expansion

CAPE VINCENT — Amidst ongoing backlash from several Pleasant Valley Road/County Route 6 residents over the proposed Water District 6 expansion, the town apparently has agreed to lower the water rate for at least one additional property.  Continue...