Attached is a request from FORE asking the PSC to rescind its elimination of 19 turbines from the Jordanville Project.
This front group for Community Energy has neither the funds nor wit to successfully mail a postcard on its own, let alone file such a brief. Although I detect some of Chairwoman Kay Sheldon Moyer's unprofessional peek in the filing.
Community Energy's Community liaison Kristen Sullivan does have the wit and the means. I believe she and Community Energy are the actual authors of the dovcument.
Ms. Sullivan is currently living in Fly Creek, although home is in Pennsylvania
For some additional local color, consider that following a School Board meeting in April 2007, a group of lease holders and town officials repaired to the local watering hole, The Bowling Alley. Kay Moyer was buying successive rounds of drinks at $5 a drink. Among those present were Les Miller (Warren Town Board), Tucky Miller (Stark Town Board), Rick Bronner (Stark Town Supervisor), Janice Whipple (Springfield resident), Ed & Shirley Mower (Stark turbine leases), Tony Grescheck (Stark Highway Supervisor) and the Moyers.
Kay Sheldon Moyer signed the letter in the recent Direct Mail allegedly from Friends of Renewable Energy (FORE) It was a slick four-color mailing, with tear-off return form and post paid return envelope addressed to Kay Moyer at a P.O. Box. It was even mail merged for tailored individual addresses, and tailored greeting line. No one in FORE has the skills to put together a mailing like this. Clearly, it was done by Community Energy.
FORE's website is registered in Pennsylvania to Kristen Sullivan of Community Energy.
In January the Stark Town Board appointed Kay Sheldon Moyer to the Planning Board, to fill out a term left by the resignation of Kent Hogeboom. It was a three-year appointment, to 2010. There were no official announcements, no legal notices, no process in this appointment. It was a total surprise. When the Town Board voted on it, the citizens present did not even know what they were voting on, until after the unanimous vote was taken. Only then did the Town Supervisor look at Kay and say, "Congratulations. You're on the Town Planning Board until 2010."
Recently, a member of Advocates for Stark suggested that Kay Moyer may be in the employ of Community Energy. She goes to every public meeting and speaks out in favor of the turbines. At first, her vernacular was a little rough, peppered with curse words. More recently, she has cleaned that up, perhaps with coaching. As "chairperson" of FORE, she has a post office box, and her name is being used to advance Community Energy's agenda. She is obviously the cheerleader who calls the turbine lease holders together for important meetings. The Moyers have never been wealthy, and neighbors doubt they can afford to buy multiple rounds of drinks for a dozen or more people. Someone is picking up that tab.
As one lifetime resident observed, "Kay Moyer does nothing for no one for free. Either she's been promised a job, or she's being paid." At the very least, it is likely her expenses are being covered. Since she is not a turbine leaseholder, there may be some other incentives, too.
Although I understand there is nothing strictly illegal in all of this, lack of transparency does raise some serious ethical questions.
Andy Minnig
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