Hunter, According to your logical views, you would not want gas trucks delivering to gas stations, as they may have an accident, how about heating oil for our houses, maybe the trucks would have a fire in an accident?? How about airplanes flying over head. Just maybe one would crash in our area and would cause a problem. SEE how UNLOGICAL your views are. No logic from you on any position.Hal Graham
Robert C. Strasburg II responds:
No Mr. Graham, I was very plain in my dialog. UPC and the Town Board along with the support of people as yourself that are putting turbines on their property for money and others who are also in line to receive money from the wind company are moving so fast in your pursuit of this income that time is not being taken to consider the NEW impacts these turbines bring with them.
You being a judge understand as well as I do that we do not live in a perfect world. Our inventions and machines for convenience bring with them certain inherent dangers. My analogy clearly states that we have a need for electricity that these industrial turbines do not significantly contribute too, but many have created this fallacy on the back of this need for energy and are in hot pursuit of the money.
My statements are clear when I say that if you are going to ignore the fallacy of the supposed energy fulfillment and join in pursuit of the money, at least slow down and help us prepare for the NEW liabilities these turbines bring. Yes, we have fires started by cigarettes, fuel trucks and cars, but how many of these cigarettes, fuel trucks and cars do you see burning 265 feet in the air throwing 500 gallons of flaming oil around? Our fire department has been trained in fighting fuel fires from fuel truck leaks.
If these industrial size turbines are 500 feet from a neighbors property with a fire 265 feet in the air at the hub, spewing 500 gallons of flaming oil with 257 ft. turbine blades spinning in the wind adding to the dilemma, are you going to use the same technique to combat that fire before it gets to the neighbors property only 500 feet away and burns his assets. While you are in hot pursuit of money that you want, don’t you think it the proper thing to do to take at least a moment and consider how you are going to protect your neighbor’s assets? Are your neighbor’s financial interests to be sacrificed for the pursuit of yours? You are a Judge, you judge …
As you know, there is nothing wrong with money; we all need it to live our lives. The Bible is very plain when it talks about money. Although it is misquoted many times to say that “money is the root of all evil” that is not what it actually says. I am sure you are aware that it actually says that “the LOVE of money is the root of all evil”. Love for money causes us to set aside concern for our neighbor and makes us do things in our pursuit of it to violate the commandment given by our Savior; Mt. 22:37 Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38. This is the first and greatest commandment. 39. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.'
Verse 39 does seem to say that you should tend to your neighbors interests as you do your own, doesn’t it? Is this logical to you Mr. Graham? Judge, you too will stand in front of a Judge one day and you will answer to Him.
Now, If I have made any sense to you so far, rather than try to think of some way to tear down what I have said, instead, please direct your attention to how you are going to protect your neighbor. The risk you take for your pursuit of this money is that your property might be burnt and you may not care, but I would think your neighbor cares if his gets burnt, or worse yet, him and his family while they are in their house sleeping.
Who is going to pay for the new tools and training our firefighters need? What type of tools are they going to need to be able to know about these fires immediately before they get to the neighbors property? What kind of early warning mechanisms are out there and how much do they cost? How many of these devices do we need? How are our volunteers going to get from downtown Cohocton and Atlanta to the tops of these hills in time to contain the fire before it travels 500 feet to the neighbor? How far will these turning turbines hurl this flaming oil? How close can our firefighters get? How are they going to reach the flaming turbine? Will a ladder work? Do they need aerial equipment? A helicoptor? One or two? If so, how much will that cost? Who is going to pay for all this? Are our taxes going up so you can get your money? Maybe UPC will donate what we need out of their $25,000,000.00 per year.
You have credited our Town Board for doing such a wonderful job in preparation of these turbines; surely they have given you the answers. I would like to see these answers presented at the upcoming meeting on July 26th in a detailed report of how they have studied the issue and have the answers. I would like to see the results of all this hard work. Or was the hard work just to get the money? You wouldn’t suggest to me that this issue of preparing for the liability brought by these turbines has been ignored would you? You wouldn’t suggest to me that these neighbors financial interests are being ignored while they seek their own financial interests would you? We will see on the 26th.
Those that are in such a frenzied pursuit of this money remind me of the monkey that has found a peanut inside a jar that he wants. He reaches in to get the tempting morsel and finds himself frustrated beyond measure when he clenches his fist to secure the object of his lust and although is seems so close … he can’t get his hand out.
They remind me of this monkey in the fact that they can’t break the jar. They present their spin on the issues only to find the jar is not broke. They scream and hop around as this frustrated monkey does declaring “no loss in property value!”, “no ice throw”, “these are green”, “it’s our patriotic duty”, “they reduce the use of oil”, “what fires?’, “we planned so well!”, come to our meeting (P.S. , please leave your brains home) and listen to us tell you! ” … and yet, the jar does not break. Your spin is not effective and you are losing credibility in your arguments because as this issue lingers on, more and more facts are coming out to defeat your spin.
This is just one small segment of the liabilities these turbines bring. How many more would you like to discuss with me Mr. Graham?
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