Friday, July 31, 2009

Comments on the Ecogen application dated February 17, 2009 for a special use permit

Dear Ms. Dunn:

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced application and to provide public input during the technical review of this application. Please consider this commentary as part of your technical review of the application by Ecogen for a wind farm in the Town of Italy. Please also share this letter with the other members of the Town Board and the town’s engineer Frank Sciremammano.

We strongly urge the Town Board to substantively address the points raised in this letter, especially impulsive low frequency noise at night. Because the application fails to address these points in a careful, thorough, and scientifically valid way we urge the Town Board to deny this application as currently proposed. The project should be re-designed based on sound scientific knowledge and reasoning.

We caution the Town Board to move forward on this application with great care, as “the Devil is in the details.”

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