With the Jefferson County Legislature continually kicking the can down the road on the Wind Pilot for Galloo Island, a group opposed to wind towers is on the air with commmercials.
www.PreservetheGoldenCrescent.com has a commercial claiming the ruination of our bucolic St. Lawrence River lifestyle if Big Wind is allowed to continue with plans for large publicly subsidized wind farms on Galloo Island and on areas near Cape Vincent.
Because these projects have been proceeding so far on the backs of other taxpayers in the county, there is leverage to halt the County Legislature from approving massive giveaways of sales and property tax revenues. Among those on the griddle are District 9 Legislator Barry Ormsby in whose district the Galloo Island project lies. Ormsby also is being vetted by the GOP as a possible State Senate candidate.
If approved the PILOT has its beneficiaries, including a handful of local towns and school districts as well as $1.2million to the JCIDA to "administer" the PILOT over the next 20 years.
With their next election two years away and the fact that nobody ever runs in most districts, County Legislators likely need not worry about their political future....Nonetheless the wind issue pits many in politics against many of their friends who own summer homes on the Lake and River and who oppose wind turbines in their field of view.
A recent local election in Cape Vincent which elected an anti-wind resident as supervisor is the shot across the bow to nervous lawmakers.
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Mr. Hirschey, the Town of Cape Vincent Supervisor elect is a permanent, not just a summer resident, of Cape Vincent and has been for several years. His family also has a very long history of seasonal visitations to Cape Vincent. Prior to his election, Mr. Hirschey was active with development projects and community affairs in Jefferson County and Cape Vincent.
I wonder how his position on the JCIDA will affect the wind issue.
the developers are counting on dividing up the community to bring in their projects. doesn't it bother residents of Jefferson County that hundreds of millions of dollars of your taxes are demanded by companies like Upstate to make it worth their while? No wind company will bother unless all these subsidies are in place. Isn't that a huge red flag? And why does Mr Alexander act so warm and fuzzy with Upstate's lawyer? The $1.2 mil that the IDA "charges" as a fee is a drop in the bucket to Upstate. That money should go to the county, not to the IDA's private investment fund.
When all is said and done, the subsidies will run out, equipment will deteriorate and technology will afford newer and greater opportunities for the carpet baggers and bureaucrats.
The taxpayer will pay to have the towers and turbines removed and the wind sites reclaimed just as we currently pay for the abandoned, polluted industrial sites and brown fields of the 50’s and 60’s to be reclaimed. In the quest for greed society never seems to learn from history.
You can thank "4 Turbine Aubertine" for much of this.
Rwiley is giving Aubertine a free pass on all this wind stuff.
Time to do away with the JCIDA, and it's private lending practises among it's former BOD.
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