{"id":47066,"date":"2013-06-10T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=47066"},"modified":"2013-06-07T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T13:08:14","slug":"will-allow-wind-turbines-on-proposed-project-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=47066","title":{"rendered":"Will Allow Wind Turbines on Proposed Project Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"letterstotheeditor\"<\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Bono and Town Board of Madison,<\/p>\n

(June 2013) I am a property owner in the proposed wind project area (Robinson Hill). I currently reside in Tennessee and return as often as I can to visit family and enjoy the natural beauty of the land.\u00a0 When I was young I never knew how absolutely beautiful central New York is until I had been gone for some years.\u00a0 It was for the stunning beauty, vistas, and memories that I bought from my father this small corner of what had been our family farm.<\/p>\n

Currently electric power generation accounts for 40 per cent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions every year; that is 2.4 BILLION tons every year being added to the atmosphere.\u00a0\u00a0 Some people believe that climate change is all just a contrived hoax.\u00a0 Yet it is a visible fact that all over the world glaciers and ice sheets are receding at unprecedented rates.\u00a0 The more ice that disappears the more the atmosphere and oceans will heat up. At some perhaps not distant time our natural planetary air conditioning (the ice) will be overwhelmed and temperatures then could be like a runaway train.<\/p>\n

Last year here in Nashville in June an all time record high of 113 degrees was set.\u00a0 Fortunately we only had a week or 10 days of that.<\/p>\n

So, will I allow wind turbines to be placed on or near the beautiful land which has been in our family going on four generations?\u00a0 Yes, I most certainly will.\u00a0\u00a0 It is the very least I can do.\u00a0 There are people using electricity who are happy to use it so long as THEY don\u2019t have the coal, gas or nuclear plant in their line of sight, but they are going to scream and holler because they might see some wind turbines in their \u201cVIEWSHED\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0 If only they could see past the end of their noses they might see what the future holds for their grandchildren.\u00a0 It is not pretty.\u00a0 Educated young people understand this, and that they are getting the shaft.<\/p>\n

I thought it was exciting when the first turbines went in on Carl Stone\u2019s property. We could see them from Dad\u2019s living room window – no one was bummed out about it.\u00a0 I went up to Carl\u2019s near the turbines – I couldn\u2019t hear them.\u00a0\u00a0 Carl hadn\u2019t seen any dead birds.\u00a0 Cars and cats are a much greater threat to birds.<\/p>\n

Financially, the wind project is good for the schools, town, and all the property owners. \u00a0I know it means a lot to me as it will pay the taxes and provide some supplemental\u00a0income.<\/p>\n

In fact,\u00a0if there are 7,500 acres involved in the project, then that is 7,500 acres on which the taxes will be paid for sure. \u00a0 Land which otherwise is difficult to make a living\u00a0on.<\/p>\n

Also, if anything, I would think that this project will be beneficial for tourism, as many people will come from cities and elsewhere to see and visit the very\u00a0beautiful\u00a0countryside with the turbines.<\/p>\n

Finally, I am amazed by the group of people fighting this project.\u00a0 Who are these people?\u00a0 Are they a majority opinion or just a very loud, very well financed minority?\u00a0 Do they prefer to get their electricity from fossil fuels? \u00a0Are they even slightly aware that fossil fuels are causing\u00a0great environmental problems?\u00a0 Are they climate change deniers? Do they care? \u00a0 And financially why would they deny the schools, township and private landowners income? \u00a0Again,\u00a0do they care?<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Tom and Barbara Elliott<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summertown, Tn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To the Editor: Dear Mr. Bono and Town Board of Madison, (June 2013) I am a property owner in the proposed wind project area (Robinson Hill). I currently reside in Tennessee and return as often as I can to visit family and enjoy the natural beauty of the land.\u00a0 When I was young I never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-cf8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}