June 28, 2006
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
United States Senate
476 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
James Hall
PO Box 657
Naples, NY 14512
RE: Follow-up to question asked at the “Alternative Energy in New York Conference” held at the Hyatt Regency Rochester, NY June 26, 2006
Senator Clinton,
During the Alternative Energy in New York Conference and in your speech you promoted the “so called” benefits of industrial wind turbine projects. The objective in asking the following question, during the Q & A session, was to bring to your attention the grave circumstances of the organized criminal wind project scheme that is being fostered upon the public, residents and property owners, especially in rural areas of New York State.
I asked for your assistance. “Senator Clinton we need your help. When will the federal government conduct an anti-trust and RICO investigation regarding the wind turbine developers, their predatory business practices and their collusion with Town, County, State governments and IDA agencies?”
The theft in value and uncompensated use of our properties by industrial wind developers in coordination with Town, Country, State and IDA agencies is of unprecedented scope and scale. The economic model for such wind developments cannot exist without substantial government subsidies. Electric generation from these wind turbines has a much higher cost, has no storage ability and is lost when the grid is supplied by long- term contract methods. Also the wind velocity in most of our state does not support consistent electric generation. Peer reviewed studies of public safety hazards have not been conducted in Upstate where icing will be a huge factor. There is no essential public benefit, while the destruction of agricultural and residential areas will be permanently affected.
Inadequate liability and property insurance coverage, as well as, indemnity protections for townships, leaseholders and residents, who will be obliged to live next to an industrial facility subject the entire community to unnecessary risk. Effective mandates for decommissioning, removal and restoration are noticeably absent from all these projects.
The public safety and the pristine environmental treasure of our land is being sacrificed upon the altar of greed as public officials eagerly enable their dishonest partnership that will only produce the systemic destruction of the landscape and our quality of our lives.
These unaccountable and LLC corporate developers, many with foreign financed and owned interests, and local leaseholders with wind contracts function under a wall of silence. Their projects conspire to steal the use and destroy any resale property values of residents who live in proximity to their industrial turbines. Placing such giant machines as high as 500’ with the same setback as their height next to a home is unconscionable.
Where is the duty and obligation of government at all levels to protect the public safety and safeguard the constitutional, equal protection and property rights of all taxpayers? How can our children be protected when the authorities betray their oaths of office for the price of a wind turbine site?
The pattern of turbine leases given to town officials and administrative cronies has been repeated throughout NYS. Town councilmen, relatives or family members routinely sit on boards that act as lead agencies. Their conflict of interests and suspect ethical conduct demand an official and wide scale federal investigation into this multi billion dollar racket. Anti-trust and RICO statures are being violated. NYS politicians will not intervene, claiming that it is a “local matter”. (see enclosed letter from NYS Assemblyman Bacalles)
The nature of the wind turbine fraud is historic and extends to the very foundation of our rule of law. The “Comprehensive Plans” of townships are being circumvented with the abuses of spot zoning, segmentation and avoidance of SEQR regulations. Court challenges and Article 78 actions abound, but no district attorney will step forward or honor their duty and investigate the trail of bribes and criminal conduct that is systemic in this industry of graft. Our NYS attorney general will not start a probe. Ordinary citizens need federal involvement to stop the corruption that is so rampant in the industrial wind projects.
The real and frightening prospect of private development eminent domain and condemnation looms over all NYS rural communities. With wind turbine site locations scattered among and adjacent to residential properties, our homes will become unlivable. Many taxpayers will not be able to sell and certainly will never receive replacement value costs. This injustice is a direct result from the complicity and illegal actions of an unholy alliance among corrupt proponents of a business plan designed to steal agricultural land for industrial use. PILOT tax programs are a scam and exist to bilk the remaining taxpayers. Commensurate and equitable taxes will not be accessed on such wind projects. Follow the money, who makes the public decisions, who benefits and who is responsible for condemning so many NYS citizens to a life sentence in an industrial hazard zone.
Senator Clinton will you intervene and use the enormous influence your office has in making a recommendation to the Department of Justice that a dedicated and trustworthy U.S. Attorney be assigned to undertake a full scale criminal investigation into the NY statewide business practices of the industrial wind developers and the respective town governments that have demonstrated malfeasance in their office?
I will end with your answer to me at the Alternative Energy in New York Conference: Thank You.
Cordially,
James Hall
PO Box 657
Naples, NY 14512
(585) 534-5581
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