Amid Rolling Hills, a Push Against Whirling Turbines - NY Times July 24

[Coastie for Truth]

PRATTSBURGH, N.Y., July 19 - At age 59, Tom Cadigan says he is "winding down."

A few years ago, he sold his appliance store in a neighboring town so he and his wife, Kay, could move to a mobile home on land they own here. On summer evenings, they like to take in the view of the rolling hillsides that surround their home and watch the birds visit their backyard feeder. "It's very, very peaceful," he said.

But lately, Mr. Cadigan and hundreds of others are concerned that the tranquility of this rural community, 60 miles south of Rochester, may be disrupted by wind farms.

Gov. George E. Pataki's call to increase the state's so-called green energy 6 percent by 2013 has prompted a flurry of proposals that could add 46 wind farms to the three that already exist in the state. The two wind farms proposed in Prattsburgh would add 90 wind turbines that stand roughly 400 feet tall - higher, opponents like to say, than the Statue of Liberty. "My gosh, it looks like there's going to be five around us," Mr. Cadigan said. "The whole neighborhood could be driven right out."

In many cases, the wind-farm proposals are pitting the people who would benefit financially from them - including local governments and the land owners willing to lease their property - against those who would not benefit, especially neighbors who say they worry the turbines will drive down the market value of their homes and intrude upon their lives.

The drive against Wind Farms is being led by perpetual gubernatorial wannabe Tom Golisano.

WAY TO GO TOM--

DO SOME READING TOMMIE--->

JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century

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[illflem]

1. Would they rather have a nuke plant built next door?

[Coastie for Truth]

2. ACTUALLY

I lived just up east of Shippingport (the first commercial nuclear power plant in the US).

Chek out the Kunstler book -- and the "Petition" --those are the only alternatives.

[natrat]

3. just like the prius is a trendy car cuz of it's "greeness"

owning a home under a windmill will be the new status symbol for young trendy green yups.

[oscar111]

4. TRIVIAL - worry over view being spoiled is so trivial

or did i miss some other reason to be against wind power?

As to nuke power, consider ... ninety percent of uranium miners get lung cancer.

they make fine terra targets

ovrseas, the nuke plants always seem to lead to secret bomb factories and nuke proliferation.
Major problem there for sure.

[natrat]

6. yea around here it is

we laugh at the idiots who drive porches and those giant suvs.The young wannabes in there giant black mercedes sedans crack me up. Masters of the universe they are-prius' had (have) a waiting list. So to recap- if you live in wichita falls your status symbol is an f150 lighning or 500hp hemi pick up.....

[Stuckinthebush]

5. The Prius is a status symbol?

Really?