WHO IS MR. SHERRON WORKING FOR? by Karl Palmiter

After reading about the Howard wind hearing and the lack of public attendance, I see Mr. Sherron is still sticking with his strategy of having “public meetings” at times when most of the public cannot attend. 5 o’clock is no better than 10 am, and he knows it. He does not want public opinion. I guess it really doesn’t matter anyway, as the supposed hearing mean nothing. In Cohocton they were still having these hearing while turbine parts were stored in Dansville. In other words the whole deal was cut and dried a long time before any “hearings” were held. They were just a formality that is mandated by law to be held.

One has to ask themselves who is Mr. Sherron working for, Steuben County or Iberdolla which is the parent company to all these wind companies that are popping up all over NYS and the newest place being Steuben County. Why would Mr. Sherron allow Steuben county taxpayers to pay these companies all this money to install these inefficient, unreliable monstrosities, when a NY businessman, Mr. Golisano has stated that he would put them up himself with no cost to the taxpayers? I have heard Empire Winds proposal and even though I feel that wind farms are a huge waste of taxpayers’ money because they are so inefficient, in a time when efficiency is most important. Mr. Golisano offered to build these and pay for them himself at full tax rate; therefore taxes in the whole community would go down. New York State would have saved several billion dollars that could go towards researching and building something much more efficient and reliable than wind.

Why did Mr. Sherron and all these local town officials thumb their noses at an American businessman that lives in New York State that has the will and means to really help local communities instead of a few local landowners? New York State and Steuben county apparently needs all the money they can get, yet they want to deal with a foreign firm that is taking US dollars overseas for something that is a huge waste of dollars at a feeble attempt to produce electricity. These wind farm projects are an Industry and need our hills to operate, so make them pay full industrial taxes as Mr. Golisano offered.

In my opinion this whole wind farm deal in New York is a criminal scam starting with Iberdrola of Spain trying to take over the entire Northeast power grid, and you Mr. Sherron have allowed yourself to become involved. I’m sure this will all be investigated in the near future and it will be interesting to see how you deal with that.

Karl Palmiter
Cohocton