Senate Bill S4608 Letter to NYS Senate and Assembly by Paul Jacobs

To our elected officials in the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York,

Please be aware that I support the Alesi bill S4068 in the strongest possible manner. It is imperative that we take time to think this situation over before a blight of industrial turbines defaces the most beautiful natural landscapes in our state. These projects are being proposed and implemented at a prodigious pace and is important that we take time NOW to consider whether turbines on all the hilltops of New York is an outcome we want to support. If we do not, then such an outcome is a fait accompli.*

Paul Jacobs
South Bristol, NY

*Fait accompli -- An accomplished fact; an action which is completed before those affected by it are in a position to query or reverse it.

S4608 ALESI
Public Authorities
TITLE....Establishes the New York state task force on wind generating facilities siting and permitting policies

04/19/07 REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
01/09/08 REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SUMMARY:

ALESI, FLANAGAN, MORAHAN, PADAVAN, RATH, SEWARD, YOUNG
Establishes the New York state task force on wind generating facilities siting and permitting policies to study the need to implement a uniform statewide policy regarding the siting and permitting of wind energy production facilities; further establishes an 18 month moratorium upon the siting and permitting of wind energy production facilities; repeals such provisions effective December 31, 2008.