CAPE VINCENT — The town Planning Board unanimously adopted the site plan criteria submitted by the St. Lawrence Wind Farm's developer, Acciona Wind Energy USA, Wednesday night in front of some 100 members of the public, a sheriff's deputy and a state trooper.
However, nobody in the audience actually heard the motion because anti-wind protesters were chanting "Andrew Cuomo, stop this board now" some 5 feet away from the board the whole time.
Councilman Brooks J. Bragdon, who was sitting at the table with the Planning Board, said he also could not hear anything and had only realized what happened when Planning Board Chairman Richard J. Edsall told him shortly after the meeting was adjourned.
"They did it right in front of us, behind our backs," said Hester M. Chase, founder of the St. Lawrence River Public Power Association and one of dozens of people who were demanding that the Planning Board take no action before setbacks were established.
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