Wrong location for windmills
In response to Michael Peck, April 17. It is true, little has changed. Same old rhetoric from Gamesa.
It is true, as stated by Joe Cominski April 7, that DEP has turned down Gamesa’s application to build turbines on Shaffer Mountain three times for numerous deficiencies. Michael Peck states that “DEP must issue water management permits.” Since when is Peck and Gamesa the boss of DEP?
It is true also that the turbines are being erected in the wrong location. The turbines should be erected near the communities that are using the electricity produced by the turbines. Atlantic City found room for turbines. I am sure other cities could find room for them also, if they would only try. Then there would be no need to build a power line across the state.
As for the public hearing in August 2007, this was an organized event for which people were preregistered to speak. Ellen Lutz presented the usual biased rhetoric of Gamesa, with a condescending statement that the people here are “so kind,” so kind that we will sacrifice the last of the beautiful mountain forests and animals that God created for us, just for a whispered compliment that we are “so kind.
Gamesa speaks as if the people of this geographic area are simpletons. The citizens at the meeting were not a mob, but only trying to present the truth. Gamesa’s statement that the people were a “mob” was made because Gamesa did not like hearing the truth. The newspaper item that referred to the people as a “mob” was written by an employee of Gamesa.
Mary Lou Pelin
Schellsburg
28 April 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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