Another response to Marlyn Bacon

Ma'am,

I'm not sure where you got your information concerning "us" windwatch people but you are so far off that it's pathetic. My husband and I own over 170 acres, as well as a lot of the other people in this group. It has nothing to do with acrage. Have you ever been to this town? Probably not. This town is one of the few places left that has the natural beauty of the fall foliage. People come from miles and miles every fall to enjoy this scenery. Once the windmills are put up this will dwindle to just about nothing. There are many people, outside of the windwatch that don't want to see them here either. They are afraid to speak up though as to the reprocussions that might happen. If it had been put to public vote I am sure that it would of never passed. People can speak their minds through voting. I think that the board and everyone else involved knew that they would never be here if the people, all of the people in this village and town could voice their opinions.

You seem to forget that this is farm country. If the electric goes out the majority of us have generators, so NO we don't call immediately when the lights go out.

You must not have done your homework on what an actual windmill produces. It's just about zilch. You, me or anyone else that has them do not benefit from them. I can send you a lot of actual fact literature so that you can get the facts straight before you decide to open your mouth about something that you don't seem to really know about.

Our biggest concern with this whole deal is the fact that no-one here will actually benefit from them. There is just a handful that actually get anything from it. If they want to be here, that's fine but let them pay like any other industry would have too. They want to make 1 payment in instead of paying industrial taxes. Why? So that they can pocket all of the money?! Eventually all of this will be put back onto the taxpayers. And everyone knows that New York State is the highest in tax rates of any other state. This community consists of more welfare than working people. We are taxed to death now to pay for those that are to lazy to work. Plus, when this company came here they said that they were going to hire all local people to do the work. Now that they have the go ahead on some of the projects they have hired no-one from here. They were all brought from out of state, from their own companies.

So ma'am, if you are interested in getting your facts straight e-mail me back. I will be glad to send you all the literature to prove to you that they are only around to make a certain few rich. And it surely isn't going to be me, you or our communities.