After reading the most recent letter in this week’s Valley News from our most honorable councilman Wayne Hunt, I must say he scares me to death with his intelligence. To have such a person guiding our town is almost criminal. He is so hell bent on getting wind towers on the top of these hills, it makes no difference at what cost to anyone else. The Cohocton Wind Watch group has provided a tremendous amount of factual information to both the town board and planning board and all of it has been totally ignored.
It appears to be full speed ahead, “Damn the Torpedoes” type of thinking, going on in this town, just to show they can do what they want and deal with the ramifications later. Well there’s no doubt in this persons mind they will. Unfortunately, in the end it will break the town and every one of us will pay the price. At that time I hope every one of you Wayne Hunt supporters sit down and write him a nice thank you letter.
By the way Wayne, why don’t you tell the people of Cohocton where all the electricity being produced by our wind turbines is going? A lot of the people here in town seem to think they’re going to get cheaper electricity when in fact all of it will be going through those cross country transmission lines, you talked about, headed for New York City. In fact our electric bills most likely will be going up, not down.
About the only true facts you have right in your letter are the “Dedicated Dozen” of people, and in fact there are many more, who have been working tremendously hard to stop or slow the progress of wind development in Cohocton. Although we haven’t stopped it, we surely have slowed it down. The only reason for that is, to get it done legally and safely. So far that seems to have failed also.
The Reform Cohocton group was formed to give the voters of Cohocton a choice in government they haven’t had in quite some time. Although it may appear to be just about wind ( only because that’s the hottest topic going right now ), it is not. It’s about letting the people have a voice in what goes on in their town, speaking at public meetings and maybe even getting answers to some of their questions. It’s about doing things the right way and legal way. I’m sure Wayne, by the time the new administration gets in place it will be to late for any torpedoing from the inside, you will already have done that. The new administration will only be able to clean up your mess and make sure everything is done legally from that point on.
By the way, Iberdrola has not yet purchased Energy East ( owners of NYSEG and RG&E ) . The deal has not been voted on by stock holders or government officials. We as citizens of this country had better hope this deal does not go through. It would be a major security risk to our country to have major utilities owned and controlled by a foreign country. Wayne, if you think this is a great thing, you definitely need to be removed from your political seat.
Gary Struck
Cohocton, NY
P.S. By the way Wayne, your little wind mills don’t turn much more than the real thing will. Oh well, I guess we’ll all just have to sit in the dark more.
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