What fire company are we going to call to fight the hydraulic oil fire that will spew hundreds of gallons of burning oil from the top of these wind turbines? Will we be able to buy the equipment necessary to fight fires with the puny $160,000 we are supposed to get from UPC for payment instead of taxes? Reasonable, level headed citizens have called for a moratorium on this wind turbine program from the Planning Board to take time to address this and other issues. I ask … how are you going to fight a HAZMAT fire at the top of a 400' turbine with the equipment we have in our current fire department? How are you going to train our men to fight these fires? This issue is unaddressed in the plans I have seen coming from our Town Board. Who is going to restore hundreds of acres of lost timber if one of these turbines should fail on a dry summer night and start a fire that spreads? Who is going to pay to clean up all the spewed oil that contaminates the acres of ground surrounding these turbines? Has this been addressed by either our Town Board, Planning Board of Fire Department? How far do you think the $160,000 will go that UPC is generously lavishing on our Town (remember $160,000 is only 0.64% of their yearly income off of just Phase 1 and 2 of this program from what I can find out).
Robert C. Strasburg II
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