Dear Senators and Assemblymembers,
On Jan 16, 2008, the PSC, commenting on wind turbine projects, stated the protocol for proper siting of the turbines to be the following:
"Staff has developed a practice that requires that the developer have no closer than 1.5 height of a turbine near a transmission facility. This is, of course, fairly obvious so that if the wind is blowing too hard or there's a storm or some damage that may happen from any other event that we might not foresee and the tower and the turbine come down, it does not disrupt the transmission facility which is, of course, critical to the infrastructure for the electrical and gas Systems."
Protection of transmission facilities are critical.
Is the protection of the public health and safety less critical? Should the public roads and property receive any less protection?
Is this not arbitrary and capricious? Is this not the essence of SEQRA's "worse case scenario"??
Yes, we have asked for a Declaratory Ruling of EVERY NYS Agency since 2004!! Who is responsible and who will provide the answer?
The public wants equal protection from the fairly obvious dangers of wind turbines............NOW! No grandfathering!!
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