Italy Town Board
Italy Town Hall
6060 Italy Valley Rd
Naples, NY 14512
Board Members:
It appears that you are putting the proverbial cart (WAY) before the horse! Have you given up supporting what is best for the town and its residents after almost seven years of doing what is right? Why are you concerned with "incentive zones" and zoning regulations for commercial wind turbines, a technology, foisted upon us all by industrial wind developers, that does not support their claims?
Providing "incentive zones" and other regulations will be viewed as a counter-proposal to the developers and all but guarantees that they will be erecting turbines in the town of Italy. It implies to all, but especially the commercial wind entities, that you admit industrial wind turbines really work. The industrial developers will use this to undermine your proposed rules and regulations to their benefit. They will bring in their "experts" to dispute your site proposals, noise requirements, setbacks, etc.
Logical and sound reasoning shows that Commercial/Industrial Wind power does not work.
• It is not a scientifically sound solution to help reduce global warming and CO2 emissions.
• It is not a commercially viable source of energy by itself
• It is not environmentally responsible
• It does virtually nothing to reduce our dependency on foreign oil
• It does virtually nothing to reduce our dependency on traditional sources of energy for producing electricity, e.g. - Coal, natural gas, nuclear.
So, where is the benefit?
Industrial wind developers have bamboozled many of our local officials, state and federal representatives and the general public into thinking otherwise. Why? Not for any of the reasons listed above, but for money and lots of it. As you hopefully know by now, it is very profitable to the wind entities due to huge state and federal subsidies, tax credits and "green" credits.
When a new way of thinking is proposed as a solution to a problem, in this case renewable energy using industrial wind turbines to replace fossil-fuel energy, lessen our dependence on foreign controlled energy, and save the environment, it should be up to the wind companies to prove industrial wind development's worth. Yet, this has not happened! So, why have you chosen the "cart before the horse" path?
Why after twenty-some years of world-wide commercial turbine development, with tens of thousands of turbines marring landscapes and seascapes, splitting communities apart, pitting neighbor against neighbor, have the commercial wind interests not provided independent objective proof that wind power is a viable solution to the points made above?
Once you know the truth that the technology does not support commercial wind developer's claims, these project(s) should never happen. So, please state your true motives. Are you still serving Italy's best interests or are you caving in to the commercial wind developers disseminating misleading and incomplete information?
Everyone makes mistakes. But, it is not too late to correct the mistakes that have been made and are now being made in our beautiful town and surrounding areas concerning industrial wind turbines.
Please, back up a few critical steps and make the wind developers provide actual proof to their misleading claims in real world use, not guesstimates, not projections or capacities, but actual facts. We have plenty of commercial wind developments world-wide to obtain this data. Then, decide if industrial wind development is beneficial to the town of Italy, taxpayers and ratepayers anywhere!
Caving in to a technology that does not work is the wrong way to go. Efforts should be directed to research and technologies that will be a viable solution to our energy needs. Commercial wind turbines not only do not work, but they do not work at great expense to taxpayers and ratepayers everywhere. How will you measure the costs negatively affecting the quality of life, health and safety of ourselves and all creatures around us? Please, take steps in the appropriate order and always pay it forward, not backward.
Thank you for your consideration.
Respectfully,
Jim Sawicki
Parrish Hill Rd
Naples, NY 14512
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