With town secrecy going on between Wind Developers, Town Boards and Lease owners, why should any Town Board Member assume that there wouldn’t be some problems among town taxpayers!
Town Supervisors seem to be blaming their stress on Concerned Citizen Groups and Taxpayers of that particular town. Jack Zigenfus feels his personal health comes long before these windmills. Maybe he should have thought about all of that before he got into the situation of allowing developers to come in and tear the town apart by padding a few pockets and taking away from others. Jack Zigenfus feels his compensation of $10,000 a year isn’t nearly enough to compensate him for being accountable to ALL residents of the town. Jack, maybe your stress actually is your conscience telling you that what you have done to the town of Cohocton and adjoining property owners of these huge wind turbines is just erroneous. Jack it will be over for you next November, my husband, children and I will have to live with your decisions for wind turbines for the rest of our lives. I will not sit back and tolerate my life being destroyed because you feel the need to look out for leaseholders versus adjoining property owners who have so much to lose financially and health wise.
Why is it that Board Members feel their personal health comes before the citizens of their town when data and scientific research has proven time and time again that wind energy isn’t as green as wind developers claim, yet wind developers seem to be the ones writing the Laws regulating wind industry in the towns. Perhaps what is weighing on the personal health of Town Board members are the moral and ethical proceedings of writing a Law, which is for the town. Possibly their own sense of right and wrong is ultimately getting to them that what they are doing is just morally wrong.
Back door politics ladies and gentlemen has a way of coming out and hitting hard, Presidents, elected officials, along with CEO’s of companies have felt it before and now some Board Members of Towns are too. How did local town officials think they could get away with doing wrong when higher Government officials couldn’t? The stress some Town Board members are feeling could have been alleviated back a few years ago when all this wind industry was coming to towns on the QT. Board members should have been forthright and brought it all out to the public when it was first happening and maybe all this stress they are feeling now could have been alleviated.
When Town Board members feel that their personal health is being jeopardized don’t you think that they should know in their hearts that the personal health and safety is one of the major reasons groups such as Cohocton Wind Watch came about. Residents that have their property rights being encroached on by the tip of a blade-420 feet plus another 100 feet and Town Board members and a few Planning Board members feeling that this is an appropriate setback distance when there really shouldn’t be a question that if they were looking out for adjoining property owners they would want the greatest set back that was proposed by Town Planning Board members. Even GE, one maker of turbines recommends they be sited no closer than a mile to the nearest dwelling. There seems to be a problem when Town Boards can’t give a greater distance, the problem being that if they gave a greater distance to adjoining property owners it would mean less turbines coming into that particular area, they seem to be listening only to the smooth talking salesmen, the developer. Remember the salesmen of turbines are the ones that started this fight between town and groups; they are the ones who walked in and started destroying and taking our way of life from us. Greed by some, no respect to others yet at all times wanting respect because they are town officials. Yet they can see no respect to property owners that will have there lives changed forever because these turbines will be 500 feet from their property line.
Readers, my name is Bonnie Palmiter, I live in Cohocton, have for 25 years, married my husband Karl whom has been a resident of Cohocton for 33 years. We have three children born and raised in Cohocton, and when I state born I mean I gave birth to my last daughter two months early at our home in Cohocton. She has many medical problems, which as Wayne Hunt would like to have, written verification from her medical doctors, which he will never get, due to patient confidentiality. I will not submit medical information to any Board Member proving that she has medical problems, and it is very disheartening and demeaning for any one person to have to substantiate to some Local Board Member that they are unfortunate enough to have such circumstances.
I am a member of one of these concerned citizens groups such as Cohocton Wind Watch, but also as an independent due to not only my daughter, but also many other people out there with medical conditions that will be affected by wind turbines so close to them. I am an educator of eighteen years, whom has seen many health conditions and disabilities which the misplacement of wind turbines can and will jeopardize their health even more. Apparently Board Members around this area are very fortunate that they do not have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, grandparents and the like have any such medical problems.
In closing, Board Members stating what is in the best interest of the community should take a real hard look at themselves in a mirror. Remember, government has a checks and balance system, We the People, not THOSE People, are the checks and balance system, which you are hell bent on avoiding. There are more than what you want to open your eyes to that will in fact be affected and put through real stress and health issues of living near these wind turbines. Make the laws where by if it means having a set back a little further away, or saving a land owner their full market value of their property seem like the Board Members are looking out for all residents of that community instead of a wind developers, then possibly you yourself wouldn’t feel disrespected and personally stressed from Concerned Citizens Groups.
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