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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (107227)	8/16/2008 6:55:01 PM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 206126

He seems a bit hypersensitive You seem a bit insensitive. Think about it. The guy has spent his entire life in a peaceful serene rural area. He obviously loves the area. Now he has dozens of gigantic wind turbines jammed in his face. When I hear people talk about being in favor of wind turbines or power plants or refineries or nuclear, I always think that what they really mean is that they are in favor of it as long as it is nowhere near them. Power companies should be able to find locations for their turbines that don't ruin communities.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (107227)	8/16/2008 7:19:39 PM
From: nrg_crisis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206126

He seems a bit hypersensitive Quite possibly, for the one guy at the beginning of the article. But the balance of the report details the deep divisions in the community that the wind farm has brought, and these aren't wacko eco-extremists but rather (for the most part) the kind of 'salt-of-the-earth' types that anyone would want as their neighbors. The depths of the division and resentment is illustrated well in the article, although the balance of the community sentiment in this case was in favor of the wind farm. To me, the article illustrated well: - the Law of Unintended Consequences. I would never have thought that generating clean energy, getting much-needed cash into the hands of just-scraping-by farmers, working towards energy independence, and swelling municipal and school-district coffers would have generated anywhere near the opposition that this rather modest wind-farm project did. And if the people in these particular communities are not exactly a bunch of eco-warriors, what will happen when the utilities try to build a wind facility near a community that is? - the disconnect between what opinion polls say we want - less dependence on foreign oil, etc. - and what, when the rubber meets the road, we actually decide to do. If communities in the future veto wind farms, where will all this clean, green energy come from - especially in a state like New York that has a green-energy mandate? Will those communities go solar instead? At what cost? - in the end how true Tip O'Neill's dictum is, that all politics is local. I generally couldn't stand O'Neill when he was Speaker, but I think he hit the nail on the head on that one. nrg

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (107227)	8/17/2008 2:09:07 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 206126

t.boon pickens said he wouldn't have one on his 2000 acres.