Speaking as a resident with property in both the towns of Clayton and Orleans, and one who is keenly interested in the subject of wind turbine safety, I am very proud to salute Clayton Supervisor Justin Taylor and his board. They accepted the recommendations of the Wind Turbine Commission for changes to the current law regarding industrial wind development. It is my fervent hope and expectation that they now will follow through promptly with those recommendations.
The 12-member commission, appointed late in 2008, was charged with the heavy responsibility to thoroughly study any possible turbine-related health and safety risks to the residents and how best to protect us. As the town board had received considerable and conflicting evidence surrounding safety features of industrial wind facilities, they wisely selected six well-informed residents who had found the turbines to be safe and six residents who had presented evidence to the contrary. Their recommendations were impressive, thoughtful, factual, scientific and totally devoid of emotion and/or opinions. I salute each member.
In the meantime, some "johnnies-come-lately" continued sporadically to offer emotional pleas and promotional documents with comments already studied and either discarded or accepted by the board. Such is standard procedure in the manufacturing world.
Residents who are interested would be wise to look into the scientific, deep and lengthy research conducted by two brothers, Hilkat and Oguz Soysal, professors in the Department of Physics and Engineering, Frostburg State University, Maryland. They are fully knowledgeable of the many methods and the proper equipment physicists and engineers use to measure noise frequencies in things such as industrial wind turbines.
Frank Andre
LaFargeville
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