A TALE OF TWO COUNTIES Video contrasts the experiences with wind turbines of people of two western New York counties, Wyoming and Chautauqua. Wyoming has many of the giant industrial turbines. Chautauqua doesn't, yet. Video begins with a Chautauqua County legislator George Borrello, candidate for County Executive:
"We are putting in the old-fashioned foreign-made 500-foot tall leviathans that are going to destroy our natural environment. These are not what we need here in Chautauqua County. The only green thing about these things is money because these Wall Street LLC’s have been created for the sole purpose of sucking up taxpayer dollars and spitting them out to the crony capitalists that are sucking up all that money. "This is not what we need in Chautuaqua County. We don’t need our natural vistas destroyed by this. We don’t need the adverse health effects that have been associated with windmills. "Everything you can say about fracking affecting our water table, about affecting human health, devastating property values -- everything like that can be said about windmills yet our governor is embracing windmills and has cast away fracking for the same reasons. This is ridiculous. And I’ll tell you something – this energy plan of his 50 by 30 sucks!" Later, in response to a second question from the audience about alternative energy, Mr. Borrello said: “We have to find out what is available. I don’t want to see a perpetual subsidy to create those jobs. It’s not right. It’s not right to burden the taxpayers with those things. I just don’t want to see a perpetual tax subsidy that creates that.”
50/30 - A TALE OF TWO COUNTIES
One: 50% 'Green' by 2030
Two: Wind Energy
Three: Civil Discord
Four: Health
Five: Property Values
Six: Jobs
Seven: The Environment
Eight: Subsidies, Secrets & Setbacks
Nine: Gov Cuomo, the PSC & the NRDC
Ten: Carbon Dioxide
Eleven: Climate Change / Global Warming
Part 2 (chapters 7 - 11) to follow.
