Many thanks for the excellent lead story in the Monday, Aug. 18, issue of the Times concerning wind-farm corruption which affirmed what many suspected. But I fear the town of Clayton's nearsighted board members will overlook the article. They see only immediate profit from turbines and refuse to recognize long-term concerns about severe environmental, ecological and economic damage.
I'm only surprised Clayton village officials haven't roped this cash cow and ridden it all the way to the bank. They must need money. My property assessment and water-sewer rates have doubled in the last three years. Come on, you village potentates, give us taxpayers a break and grab some green for going green.
Locate turbines atop the rebuilt opera house, TI Inn, whatever structure goes up on the Frink property and the soon-to-be-built (we think) St. Laurent Hotel. Better yet, attach vanes to church steeples throughout the village and demand the money PPM Energy saves on construction costs.
Some shortsighted, uninformed citizens will be shocked and dismayed by this desecration, but eminent domain has proved an effective tactic when greed is involved.
Need more money? Buy a fleet of tankers at taxpayers' expense and truck our clear, pure (oops! that was before the Seaway) water to the drought-stricken Southeast. Profit aside, what could be nobler than saving Pogo whose sage observation: "We have met the enemy and he is us," most assuredly describes our local bureaucrats.
Ed Ladley
Clayton
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