This posting, written by Rick Towner, is in response to an email sent to the Yes! Wind Group with a cc to Rick Towner from Dr. Morehouse. Mr. Towner has given permission to the Yes! Group to publish his comments to Dr. Morehouse.
Dear Doc,
Since your cohoctonfree site first came up, and the photo was readily available, I received a lot of inquires as to the size of turbines in Cohocton and the Wolcott farms picture. I believe most of these inquiries were based on public statements from Cohocton Wind Watch that UPC plans to use “off shore” 2.0MW turbines, turbines “that have not been installed anywhere else” and were simply reinforced by the Wolcott photo. Members of YES! Wind Power Cohocton have also been questioned as to turbine size and people have referenced your picture of the Wolcott farm.
As you saw on the YES! Wind Power site your original picture was placed with an actual picture of existing turbines in Fenner. This was done to offset fear that UPC was planning turbines that would need to be over 1100 feet tall to match the scale in the Wolcott Farm photo. When a reporter this week asked me where the Wolcott picture came from and I went to your site. As you say, the picture is not in the same spot as it was originally and I did have to dig for it. When I found it I saw that you had corrected the photo, and I very much appreciate your spending time to fix it. When I discovered the change I sent an email to the webmaster at the YES! Wind Power Cohocton site to note your change on their website.
Please keep watching the YES! Wind Power Cohocton site. In the near future they will be posting photos and movie clips of Fenner, Tug Hill and Wethersfield I took in the last couple weeks and forwarded to them. This Sunday I will be taking a trip to Bear Creek PA (http://www.newwindenergy.com/windfarm_bearcreek/index.html). Bear Creek is now online with twelve 2.0MW Gamesa turbines just like the ones proposed for Cohocton in the DEIS. I will be taking more photos and video in keeping with my personal attempts to bring accurate representations of turbine site and sound by photographing actual sites.
Again I appreciate your time and dedication to correcting the Wolcott Farm picture.
I am sure with the recent passing of Charlie Wolcott on their minds the Wolcott Family will deeply appreciate the misrepresentation of their farm being corrected too.
Rick Towner
Public Outreach
Coordinator
UPC Wind Management, LLC
28 Maple Avenue
Cohocton, NY 14806
Tel: 585.384.9550
Fax: 585.384.5023
Mobile: 585.944.4684
Email: rtowner@upcwind.com
http://www.upcwind.com/
Dear Doc,
Since your cohoctonfree site first came up, and the photo was readily available, I received a lot of inquires as to the size of turbines in Cohocton and the Wolcott farms picture. I believe most of these inquiries were based on public statements from Cohocton Wind Watch that UPC plans to use “off shore” 2.0MW turbines, turbines “that have not been installed anywhere else” and were simply reinforced by the Wolcott photo. Members of YES! Wind Power Cohocton have also been questioned as to turbine size and people have referenced your picture of the Wolcott farm.
As you saw on the YES! Wind Power site your original picture was placed with an actual picture of existing turbines in Fenner. This was done to offset fear that UPC was planning turbines that would need to be over 1100 feet tall to match the scale in the Wolcott Farm photo. When a reporter this week asked me where the Wolcott picture came from and I went to your site. As you say, the picture is not in the same spot as it was originally and I did have to dig for it. When I found it I saw that you had corrected the photo, and I very much appreciate your spending time to fix it. When I discovered the change I sent an email to the webmaster at the YES! Wind Power Cohocton site to note your change on their website.
Please keep watching the YES! Wind Power Cohocton site. In the near future they will be posting photos and movie clips of Fenner, Tug Hill and Wethersfield I took in the last couple weeks and forwarded to them. This Sunday I will be taking a trip to Bear Creek PA (http://www.newwindenergy.com/windfarm_bearcreek/index.html). Bear Creek is now online with twelve 2.0MW Gamesa turbines just like the ones proposed for Cohocton in the DEIS. I will be taking more photos and video in keeping with my personal attempts to bring accurate representations of turbine site and sound by photographing actual sites.
Again I appreciate your time and dedication to correcting the Wolcott Farm picture.
I am sure with the recent passing of Charlie Wolcott on their minds the Wolcott Family will deeply appreciate the misrepresentation of their farm being corrected too.
Rick Towner
Public Outreach
Coordinator
UPC Wind Management, LLC
28 Maple Avenue
Cohocton, NY 14806
Tel: 585.384.9550
Fax: 585.384.5023
Mobile: 585.944.4684
Email: rtowner@upcwind.com
http://www.upcwind.com/
posted by Yes! Wind Power for Cohocton at
1:41 AM
1 Comments:
Rick Towner of UPC,
It's concerning how you are using your familiarity with our town and it's residents to represent your corporation. Since you are communicating as a representative of your corporation, don't you think it's appropriate for you to use language and formality that represents your corporations position and interest? Does UPC represent Cohocton, or Mr. Wolcott? Why is UPC (through the virtue of your signature) making a personal statement to Dr. Morehouse indirectly speaking on behalf of Wolcott? Indirectly, UPC is slandering Dr. Morehouse by publically suggesting he defamed the Wolcott farm through his graphic. Does UPC really have the right to make such a statement?
I'd like to think that UPC doesn't own this town yet and would appreciate your conduct to be as a corporate representative. It seems to me quite inappropriate for you to jump in and out of "neighbor" status and corporate representative status as convenient. Even more troubling is to maintain a dual status, making personal comments or opinions about our residents on UPC letterhead.
Thank you,
James G. Lince
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