Barry Miller response to Marlyn Bacon

Hi Marlyn,

Having spent 20 years in the wind energy business, I could not agree with you more about the importance of wind generated electricity.

One of the experiences I had working in the wind business (I operated a wind farm in the Altamont Pass area of California) was the ruthlessness of many of the wind turbine manufacturers and developers. They did not have the values and ideals of conscientiousness I would have suspected would be prevalent in the business.

Those of us who are living in the incredible beautiful area here in western New York and Pennsylvania are being subjected to this ruthlessness. The developers are lying to us and using underhanded methods to site turbines which are way too large and way to close to our homes. In addition, with knowledge of wind resources, there is not enough wind here to justify the ripping up of our forest lands for minimal power generation.

I am for small wind and solar development in the area; in fact, home generated power is really where this country needs to revert back to.
There were over a million small wind turbine systems throughout the mid-west of the US in the 1930's and half of the homes in Pasadena, CA in 1900 had solar water heaters.

We need to be following the European example of off-shore wind turbine installations where the wind is more suitable and the health of the public is not compromised.

Thanks,

Barry Miller
Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County