Wind power companies get by with a little help from their friends

Retired biologist argues Jefferson County not suitable for wind turbines

By MARCUS WOLF

Watertown Daily Times

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017

State agency guidelines and reports used to help review the Clean Energy Standard advise against wind energy development in Jefferson County, argues a retired biologist tasked with reviewing Apex Clean Energy’s Galloo Island Wind project. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Lighthouse owners want more communication with town officials about wind project

By MARCUS WOLF

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The owners of the historic lighthouse on Galloo Island want to know what Hounsfield town officials will do to represent their interests in the review process for Apex Clean Energy’s Galloo Island Wind project Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Wind project opponent conducts his own avian risk assessment

2017 Avian Risk Assessment for Apex Clean Energy’s Galloo Island Wind Project

Submitted to the Public Service Commission January 30,2017

by Clifford P. Schneider

Lake Ontario Unit Leader - Retired

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

 RE: Galloo Island Wind Project, Case No. 15‐F‐0327

Dear Secretary Burgess:

In accordance with Article 10 of the Public Service Law, please find

attached a 2017 Avian Risk Assessment for Apex Clean Energy’s Galloo

Island Wind Project.

2017 Avian Risk Assessment for Apex Clean Energy’s Galloo Island Wind Project by pandorasboxofrocks on Scribd

Developer and biologist at odds about material review availability

Related letters ~

(1.) Schneider’s letter to the public service commision requesting procedural clarification concerning the release of reports submitted to the DEC, by Apex Clean energy.

(2.) Muscato tells the PSC that all participants in the A 10 Process are not created equal

(3.) Schneider letter to the PSC in response to Moscato's 12/28/2016 letter

Executive Director of Save The River Comments to PSC Concerning Galloo

Letter to PSC requesting procedural clarifiation concerning the release of documents cited in the Galloo Island Wind project's Preliminary Scoping Statement.

American Bird Conservancy Comment letter to the PSC ~ Regarding the Galloo Wind Project

Infrasound Impact on Little Galloo

Request for Galloo Island Avian Radar Studies

Correction to Radar numbers

Galloo-Island-Wind-fairness-of-the-process-in-evaluating-the-value-of-Galloo-Island-Wind-LLC

Industrial Wind Threatens Our Birds- Winter Raptors

Full of wind: State DEC improperly collaborated with Galloo Island projects

Apex unveils Galloo wind project plans to Jefferson County legislators

Apex acquires Galloo Island

Subsidy-itis: Developers shouldn’t receive both state and local tax breaks

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a $160 million sweepstakes last week to encourage large wind- and solar-power generation projects across the state. The program’s launch comes shortly after a 32-turbine wind project is being proposed by William M. Moore on Galloo Island in the town of Hounsfield.

Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

GALLOO ISLAND~WHAT IS THE NYS DEC HIDING???

Sometime between March 16,2015 and today the NYS DEC has wiped their website clean of all traces of Upstate Energy's GALLOO Island Wind Farm documents.

Why have they removed these important documents?

Who authorized their removal?

Link below to read the GALLOO ISLAND WIND FEIS

Galloo Island INDUSTRIAL WIND FEIS

  Galloo Island Feis appendix 2 Winter bird survey

Galloo Island INDUSTRIAL WIND Turbine array

Galloo Island  KiLL Permit application

Galloo Island Wind farm impacts on flora and fauna

Galloo Island - Article 10 - Visual Impacts

If visual impacts are an issue for the DEC in their Open Space Plan, how can the siting board, which includes DEC Commissioner Joe Martens, possibly approve an Article 10 proposal to erect 30, 600+ ft high industrial wind turbines on Galloo Island?

Excerpts from NY 2014 Draft Open Space Plan:

 

 Galloo Island wind as proposed 2009

The geographic area of Region 6 has a long history of providing for the generation and transmission of energy for all New Yorkers. Water power and hydroelectric generation shaped most of the region’s economy and communities. The region is home to many hydro generation facilities, including the state’s second largest hydroelectric generation facility at the Robert Moses St. Lawrence power project, the largest wind farm east of the Mississippi River and more than 20 additional proposed wind facilities, has one of the State’s three biomass-fired electrical generation facilities, as well as several large transmission corridors of international, statewide and regional significance. Clearly, the region is a major source of carbon free and alternative electrical generation capacity. This energy production and distribution capacity and the potential for future projects are important to New York State and the Northeast as a whole, and the future planning for and siting of electrical generation and transmission facilities has the potential to dramatically effect open space within the region.

In light of the current and future importance and impact to the region of energy generating

facilities, the Region 6 Open Space Committee strongly supports consideration of Open Space Conservation in the siting of these facilities including a review of the visual aspects and impacts on Open Space resources under the provisions of Article 10.

Link here to Citizens Task Force On Windpower Maine ~ to view more Galloo photos like the one above

Link here to read the NYS DEC 2014 Draft Open Space Plan