June 1, 2006
The Town of Cohocton has been presented with a situation that is quite unlike any we have ever had before. It is an opportunity to participate in fulfilling several vital needs of our modern community. We are fortunate to have wind resources that blow across our township in enough quantity to produce 116 megawatts of electric energy if we allow 58 2-megawatt wind generators to be erected. These 58 wind turbines will be our contribution to a statewide system that will provide an additional 5% of electric power from renewable sources.
We will accomplish this without mining any mineral from the earth, without burning any fuel that fouls our air, without creating any radioactive waste that will be a hazard to all forms of life for the next 10,000 years. This is an important project that deserves all the support that we can give it. For these reasons alone it should be a no-brains decision to go forward with wind power development in Cohocton.
We need not consider these reasons alone. Attached to the wind power installations is a revenue stream that will benefit our town, our school district, Steuben County and the farmers who own the land where the wind turbines will be located. If we take a look at the example UPC has proposed, $660,000 per year in payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) over the next twenty years of the contract, revenues would amount to the following:
Town of Cohocton $3,204,000.00
Wayland Cohocton School $6,580,000.00
Steuben County $3,560,000.00
Cohocton Landowners $3,480,000.00
Total $16,824,000.00
Never before now has anything with this positive impact been presented to us in the Town of Cohocton.
There are some among us and many from outside our town who insist that all of this is just plain wrong. They disrupt our public meetings, hound our Town Clerk, put pressure on our leases holders to withdraw their leases or be sued, threaten the Town Board and its directors with lawsuits and spread the most preposterous claims of destruction and doomsday prophesies that you could imagine.
It is our hope that you, the residents and citizens of our town are not unduly swayed by the negative posturing and loud talk and will stand behind your Town Board until this worthwhile project become a reality.
YES! Wind Power for Cohocton
P O Box 164
Cohocton, New York 14826
yeswindpowercohocton@frontiernet.net
The Town of Cohocton has been presented with a situation that is quite unlike any we have ever had before. It is an opportunity to participate in fulfilling several vital needs of our modern community. We are fortunate to have wind resources that blow across our township in enough quantity to produce 116 megawatts of electric energy if we allow 58 2-megawatt wind generators to be erected. These 58 wind turbines will be our contribution to a statewide system that will provide an additional 5% of electric power from renewable sources.
We will accomplish this without mining any mineral from the earth, without burning any fuel that fouls our air, without creating any radioactive waste that will be a hazard to all forms of life for the next 10,000 years. This is an important project that deserves all the support that we can give it. For these reasons alone it should be a no-brains decision to go forward with wind power development in Cohocton.
We need not consider these reasons alone. Attached to the wind power installations is a revenue stream that will benefit our town, our school district, Steuben County and the farmers who own the land where the wind turbines will be located. If we take a look at the example UPC has proposed, $660,000 per year in payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) over the next twenty years of the contract, revenues would amount to the following:
Town of Cohocton $3,204,000.00
Wayland Cohocton School $6,580,000.00
Steuben County $3,560,000.00
Cohocton Landowners $3,480,000.00
Total $16,824,000.00
Never before now has anything with this positive impact been presented to us in the Town of Cohocton.
There are some among us and many from outside our town who insist that all of this is just plain wrong. They disrupt our public meetings, hound our Town Clerk, put pressure on our leases holders to withdraw their leases or be sued, threaten the Town Board and its directors with lawsuits and spread the most preposterous claims of destruction and doomsday prophesies that you could imagine.
It is our hope that you, the residents and citizens of our town are not unduly swayed by the negative posturing and loud talk and will stand behind your Town Board until this worthwhile project become a reality.
YES! Wind Power for Cohocton
P O Box 164
Cohocton, New York 14826
yeswindpowercohocton@frontiernet.net
posted by Yes! Wind Power for Cohocton at
7:05 AM
2 Comments:
After living in Atlanta all of my life I can only have these comments and questions? What happend to fixing our drainage problems? What happend to our ballfield, tennis court and basketball court? I see little kids playing in the streets! Probably because the sidewalks are too shabby or non-existent. I asked our so-called highway "engineers" if they would fix a couple of major potholes along side of my street(which become small lakes after it rains). This was while they were diligently taking 3 hours to patch 2 small holes towards the middle of the street. The reply I got is that "we are only responsible for 3ft from the middle of the road". Town of Cohocoton ambition at it's finest. I understand that the train depot has been sold and will be taken apart piece-by-piece and moved! Isn't Blood's Depot a Landmark? How did our Town let this happen?
The wind turbine debate is all about money so show me how much money is going to be spent fixing Atlanta? $660K per year sounds great and we get 5% more energy! I have some really nice energy efficient appliances that save me up to 25% a year.I also have a nice clean and safe solar panel which saves me even more. Why do we need more power if technology is already allowing us to use less?
In conclusion, are we going to use this money to fix our town? If so itemize it and prove it and I will keep an open mind.If not take your Wind Turbines to another Town of weak minded fools.
Comments are welcome.
Small Town Boy
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Anonymous, at 6:09 PM
Thank you for your comment, we too want the funding to go to the upkeep and progress of our communities. Maybe you could contact Yes! with your thoughts and we could work together. The issue of where the funds are used is up to our Town of Cohocton government, but we has citizens have the right to make suggestions and work towards a common goal. Please get in touch. We need to work together, not just Cohocton, Atlanta and North Cohocton as individual communities, but as one Town for a common cause.
Jane Towner
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Yes! Wind Power for Cohocton, at 7:46 AM
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