When an industrial wind power developer targets a community, their objective is to put up as many 25-percent income generators as they can get away with.

To achieve this financial goal, developers employ three effective strategies: 1) they not only take advantage of the global-warming concern that is prevalent, they make it into a patriotic matter to support their business, 2) they know that most people do not understand the complexities of the wind-power issue, so they frequently make broad, superficial, unsupportable benefit claims, and 3) they rely on the support they get from local people that they essentially buy off, with taxpayer money! Some reports show that they particularly target areas that are economically depressed to make their "financial incentives" more likely to be accepted.

Since this problem was legislatively created, it must be legislatively fixed. That will only happen when citizens are informed, and when citizens then subsequently speak up.

As a minimum, we need to contact our New York state legislators to get them to enact at least a one-year moratorium on wind farms. Additionally, the state needs to develop a comprehensive Resource Management Plan to deal with this and other resource issues.

To research this topic to your own satisfaction, please consider the findings of independent, environmentally concerned scientists that are spelled out at such sites at www.windwatch.org/ and www.aweo.org/. Please consider making a donation to support their work.