OUR FUTURE Tuesday June 24, 2008 something wonderful happened in Prattsburgh, NY. Our Future, decided to make a difference. Some of Our Future , sat around the week before and were discussing “WHAT CAN WE DO?” “WE NEED TO STEP IN AND BE HEARD!” “It is absolutely ridiculous that some people don’t want wind power. Don’t want a new form of clean energy? Don’t want to take a step in the right direction? Don’t THEY realize our future depends on the VISION, not their VIEW? Didn’t the town mandate to bury the transmission lines? Didn’t “Those people” want that? ”…hmmm… So why NOW, do they not want them buried under the road?”Our Future, as young as they are, are very insightful. Our Future ,sees the prices for fuel right now and at the rate the prices are rising. Our Future, sees all the damage that fossil fuels have done to the environment . Our Future sees Global warming is happening and NO ONE wants to do anything about it! Our Future also realizes it is human nature to complain out loud, but when you are supporting something, you tend to be quieter and let things play out.So, Our Future, decided to do something about it. No, CWW as you quote on your website “During the executive session, thirty or more people who are opposed to the eminent domain issue waited outside. The “other side” had asked school kids to carry signs and make a lot of noise. The kids were fed pizza for their trouble. Very few landowners or residents in favor of the project showed up.” Our FUTURE is not ignorant as you portray . Our Future IS the “other side”. Our Future took the steps necessary to make some noise to show how the COMMUNITY of Prattsburgh wants to actively take part in Changing the Current Energy portfolio. Our FUTURE held up signs saying BEEP if you want Wind Power. It was very obvious, by all the support shown by beeping your horn as you drove by, That our FUTURE , are the TRUE Advocates of the Town Of Prattsburgh. All the commotion, beeping and Chanting Truly showed all the support that “showed up”. Pizza was offered and enjoyed, after a two hour waiting period, by Our Future, the Present and the News Crews that were waiting.So next time, you look at OUR FUTURE, realize this, THEY want to be better stewards of the Environment than we are!

Mara Parker

THE POWER OF "GREEN"

Our Future-- Prattsburgh, New York

Eminent Domain In Prattsburgh
Laura Hutchinson

June 24, 2008

PRATTSBURGH-- The Prattsburgh Town meeting drew in a big crowd Tuesday evening that waited hours to hear results of a board vote. It was standing room only in Prattsburgh, and those who didn't fit inside were rallying outside. Students from Prattsburgh High School were among the crowd in the street rallying for support for the wind farms; they said this is what their community needs. “We know we have to do something different. Wind power may not be the whole answer but it's a piece of the puzzle and we're happy to support it,” said Charlene Wilson of Prattsburgh. “It's better than polluting the air to get energy. It’s going to help us in the long run. We need to figure out how to fix global warming and all those issues somehow, and this is going to help it,” said Kayla Clemons, senior at Prattsburgh High School. Advocates of Prattsburgh also came out to make their voice heard. One person says, he wants the wind turbines, he just wants to make sure they're location is regulated. “The issue here is not whether it should be in my backyard, but they're not a backyard product, like many industrial products they belong in an industrial park,” said John Servo, of the Advocates of Prattsburgh. The eminent domain is what the wind company needed to build transmission lines under town roads that connect to the wind farm. The vice president of the First Wind Development Company said it'll only require them to dig about 4 or 5 feet into the ground, and then they'll restore the ground back to normal. He also said they are in the pre-construction engineering and planning phase right now, and it’s too soon to tell when the wind farms will be up.

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