Thursday, April 05, 2007

Questions, not answers, at Howard wind hearing: Steuben County IDA hears mostly from speakers opposed to project by ROB MONTANA

HOWARD - It was a true public hearing in Howard Wednesday night.

The Steuben County Industrial Development Agency conducted the hearing - during which no questions were answered - at the Howard Fire Hall for the purpose of obtaining public comment on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for a wind project in the town. Though many of the speakers posed questions for the record, none were answered, as is the purpose of the meeting, cited SCIDA Executive Director James Sherron. About 70 people attended the session.

“It's not going to be a discussion,” he said in his opening remarks. “We're not here for a question-and-answer period.”

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