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An Open
Letter to NY Senators, Congressmen and Women
TO: All New York Senators
and Congressmen and Women:
You and others seem bent on pushing the NYS PSC to accept the offer by
Iberdrola (Spain’s giant electrical producer), based not upon signed
contracts or firm agreements but upon mere “offers,” to spend huge sums of
money building wind energy conversion systems (“wind farms”) in New York
through the purchase of Energy East.
Why are you so desperately looking to a foreign company to perpetuate
our electrical production capabilities? Does “outsourcing” of our resources
seem plausible to anyone? If it is such a worthwhile endeavor, why not keep
the money, production, control and management here?
The presumed 1000 megawatts of raw power would have to be processed
(“refined”), transported and sent to the New York City area and/or other metropolitan
areas where waste of electrical power is rampant. The upstate locals who have
the “inconvenience” of these behemoths in their back yard would, again, be
forced to adjust and adapt for the pleasure of the city dwellers who
certainly don’t want them in their area but somehow feel entitled to such
beneficence.
It seems that, again, “big” is not necessarily best or even reasonable, and
the assumption that this buy-out would benefit all is, at best, equally as speculative
as those who speak ill of such an endeavor.
Have you spoken to those saddled with the destruction of farmland, the interference
of lifestyles and heavy-handed, divisive tactics of the developers (e.g.
First Wind, Nobel, etc.) who will put these monsters up and then leave? Unless
you are personally gaining from this plan, those of us in the epicenter of
this controversy and development stage cannot understand your push to ruin the
Finger Lakes area, diminish the natural beauty of the land and arguably change
the upstate region forever. The installation is irreversible, in case
you've never seen the tons of reinforced concrete going into the ground, the
miles of buried cables, and the fields with hard-pan roads crisscrossing previously
tilled soil.
Please reconsider the legacy this will create for our children and the generations
to come.
All Concerned Residents of the Area
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