In Response to Dutch Hill Wind Project DEIS by Bonnie Palmiter

January 19, 2007

TO: Cohocton Planning Board/Cohocton Town Board
Why are we having one meeting tonight on two different projects when the data is incomplete?

-Incomplete application for this project, no signatures from either the developer or code enforcement officer.

-Canandaigua Power Partners II subsidiary of UPC/CPP, where are their NY State licenses to do business in our community?

-Traffic 144 trucks needed for Dutch hill total of 468 trips and 648 trips for Cohocton Project totaling 1116 trips for both projects, this will be a lot of traffic on our roads and yet there is no specific written language that the road repairs won’t be done at the tax payers’ expense. -There are no regulations put forward on the CPPII/UPC/CPP. Again with all these developers in the DEIS/SDEIS.

- No written language to either the Dutch Hill project or Cohocton Wind Project stating the number of workers that will hired within our town, one has to assume that the 29 jobs they state will come with these projects will be from out of State with there qualifications on wind turbines.

-With the DEIS stating approximately 5 full time employees are expected to reside locally and could translate into a few houses being owned, one has to again assume they will not be people from our community.

-Work on these two projects states 7.5 months and in another section 9 months, with no workers expected to relocate, so how will this help our community putting their own people to work as they have stated to the public all along.

-DEIS Dutch hill Project states 22 jobs will come from after project is completed, maintenance on these turbines will keep 22 people busy, again not stating locals, with 36 turbines this would pretty much mean 1.5 people working on turbines, does this add up?

No where in the DEIS for Dutch Hill Project or SDEIS for Cohocton Wind Project have I seen where the developer has been honest with this community about Generators being used as motors mainly for boosting the visual productivity ( time of rotations) of these turbines. Let me ask you with all these turbines through out the States why are we still with an Energy shortage, well it deepens because the windmills consume electricity instead of producing it.

Every citizen is being bilked of a few dollars a month in the form of a huge tax break and heavy subsidies to these developers. The wind turbine mafia is keeping our community from being sovereign and our own elected officials from protecting us, instead they have allowed a powerful international mafia with its own hidden agenda to come in and rape our town.