Malone Telegram February 16, 2008 Letter to the Editor by Steve & Kathryn Zaker

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… attached is a devastating letter published in today’s (2/16/08) Malone Telegram by Steve & Kathryn Zaker, Brandon, NY. Devastating to the credibility of Noble Environmental Power. Notice the Zakers reference to Burke, NY: it, too, has a non-viable wind resource, according to standard third-party authorities (authorities relied upon both by government agencies and the wind industry itself).

What does this say about Noble Environmental Power? Yesterday’s headline story in the Telegram about Noble projects ruining our county roads and reneging on agreements with the Franklin County Legislature likewise does little to inspire confidence in this strange company about which North Country residents know … nothing.

We know nothing because, best I can tell, there is simply nothing there. All I can find is a couple of cheap trailers in Churubusco (where Noble set up its “headquarters”), another in Brandon, a mailing address, a website, some stationery – and a circus tent of ballooning rhetoric on what an amazing and prominent company Noble is. (I’ve been scrutinizing Noble in its various identities and staff rollovers for the past 3½ years.)

Circus tent indeed. Except it’s not funny. The wind developers have mangled our once cohesive communities.

Yesterday’s Telegram had an equally hard-hitting, fact-filled letter written by Janet Potter (Brandon), likewise showing Noble for what it is (or, more truthfully, what it isn’t). This has been a one-two punch.

In the past week the Telegram has published a series of letters written by pro-turbine people (aka turbine lease-holders) in Burke and Brandon, NY. It has likewise posted a series of letters against the turbines. It’s interesting that the anti-turbine letters use verifiable data and other evidence gathered from bona fide third party sources to argue their case. Whereas pro-turbine letters consist of slogans, wishful thinking, and wind developer hype (most of which appears to be, putting it charitably, less than the unvarnished truth).

Calvin Luther Martin