Who are these Cohocton Wind Watch people??? by John Bose

Question: Who are these Cohocton Wind Watch people???

Answer:*We are citizens, landowners, taxpayers, voters and neighbors of Cohocton

· We are people who have seen how a well-meaning town board, wasted millions of taxpayers’ dollars because they believed a flawed financial plan that said the “Fast Ferry” was a good idea. They didn’t question the plan or who sponsored it.

· We are people who came here by choice not by birth. We love the area with all its’ natural beauty and quiet.

· We respect our neighbors rights to do what they want as long as it doesn’t interfere with our rights. Rights are not a function of longevity.

· We are for clean safe power. We do not believe wind turbines are either clean or safe. Unwanted noise is every bit a form of pollution as smoke from a coal burning power plant.

· We know wind turbines make noise, lots of noise. Why would a turbine company in Wisconsin offer to buy six parcels of land that were deemed to be uninhabitable after sound tests were performed. Some of us have heard these giants first hand; some have heard tapes of their noise. And yet others know that any time a wind company is willing to buy land because their turbines are too loud that they must be making some big time noise.

· Most of us think that the wind power industry is just a Government Welfare scheme. It’s another way for the Government to make us think they’re doing something to help our energy problem. If wind power were a good idea there wouldn’t need to be a mandate for the GRID to pay for it. If it were a good idea there wouldn’t need to be millions of dollars spent for grant money. The law makers would have us believe that more gun control laws would keep guns from the hands of the bad guys, this hasn’t worked so far has it? Throwing good taxpayer dollars into wind power won’t work either. In order for wind power to be a viable source of energy it must be constant and reliable, neither is true of wind power. Government welfare is never a good thing.

· We heard we would get free electricity, that wasn’t true. We were told turbines weren’t loud, that wasn’t true either. No oil or coal will be saved either. Worldwide thousands of windmills have yet to replace a single fossil fuel plant. We don’t like to be lied to.

John Bose