Brad Jones of Naples, New York joined the Mark Dankof's America show on the Republic Broadcasting Network on Friday, May 19th, in the show's final two hours.
As reported on the Industrial Wind Action Group web site (click here), a grass roots coalition of nearly 100 citizens from New York, Vermont, and other states have filed a federal Antitrust Complaint alleging that an international cartel comprised of foreign and domestic business entities have conspired to eliminate competition in the newly emerging U.S. wind energy sector.
The complaint, filed with the Department Of Justice Antitrust Division, maintains that windfarm developers, suppliers, consultants, investors, and in some cases public officials have engaged in illegal geographic Market Allocation, Price Fixing and Bid Rigging in direct violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
As a result of this illegal conspiracy thousands of landowners and hundreds of municipalities have been denied substantial monetary gains that otherwise would be available in a free and competitive market.
The 94 citizen Complainants expect that the Department Of Justice will act quickly to assign appropriate resources necessary to investigate and prosecute these allegations and to punish any and all criminal wrongdoing to the full extent of the law. The Complainants also expect that the Department will take appropriate measures to ensure that the members of this international cartel are prevented from retaliating against any of the listed Complainants.
According to the Department Of Justice, price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation by individuals or companies are felonies currently punishable by maximum individual fines of $1 million, maximum corporate fines of $100 million, and maximum jail terms of 10 years.
Citizens from the following locales in New York are participating: Naples, Cohocton, Wayland, Cape Vincent, Lowville, Stamford, Malone, Wyoming, Cherry Valley, Addison, Canisteo, Allegany, Rochester, North Bangor, Little Falls, Hornell, Fairport, Webster, and Prattsburgh. Citizens from the following locales in Vermont are participating: Sheffield, East Burke, Sutton, and Peacham.
Mr. Jones told Mark Dankof's America that the international cartel includes the American General Electric Company, Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan, the Royal Bank of Scotland, several Italian and French banks, and the Australian Babcock and Brown financial consortium. The latter group operates through 35 business entities and fronts, including Ecogen Wind, LLC. Babcock and Brown's name has also surfaced in the national controversy over granting foreign companies concessions and contracts to administer toll road fees and programs throughout the United States. Mr. Jones also indicated that the American Wind Energy Association (click here) was providing false pabulum about the character of the industrial scale wind farms in rural New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, and what their establishment would mean politically, economically, ecologically, and culturally throughout the regions in question.
The racket is as simple as it is outlandish. The international cartel money players build an industrial scale wind farm for approximately $200 billion dollars each in the areas of their choice. They will receive a 20-25% return on this capital within 5 years, courtesy of the Production Tax Credit law in the United States which provides taxpayer subsidies to the cartel to establish the wind farms. The farms are truly constructed as a massive operation: in Cohocton, New York, one of the industrial scale wind farms has wind turbines 425 feet tall, weighing 300 tons apiece, and covering an area of 5-10,000 acres. Each wind turbine costs between $2-3 million dollars apiece.
New York State Senator Jim Alesis has introduced legislation to establish an 18 month moratorium on the international banking cartel's development of the wind farms, pending the completion of environmental and health impact studies, along with the developing federal antitrust case against the cartel filed with the federal Department of Justice. New York Senator James Seward of Oneida County, New York has introduced the so-called Alisha's Law, which alleges that the industrial scale wind farms have exacerbated the central auditory processing difficulties of an 11 year old girl whose rural home will be located less than half a mile from a coming wind farm being built by PPM Energy (click here).
One other salient point made by Mark Dankof's guest:
Why are members of the international banking cartel paying money to relevant members of governmental jurisdictions in New York State who oversee the Wind Farm developments, including members of city councils and the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) of New York? Will there be a federal criminal investigation?
Copies of the federal Antitrust complaint filed with the Department of Justice may be obtained by contacting:
Bradley E. Jones
3996 Donley Road
Naples NY 14512
585-374-2627
585-233-8539
National donations to the citizen-activists fighting the international banking cartel utilizing taxpayer subsidies to create the industrial scale wind farms may be made by contacting:
Cohocton Wind Watch (CWW) Legal Fund
P.O. Box 52
Cohocton, New York 14826
585-534-5581
Web sites: Click here and here.
Emails to: cohoctonwindwatch@gmail.com
To listen to the Brad Jones May 19th interview on Mark Dankof's America, access the latter's online archive at the Republic Broadcasting Network by clicking here.
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