[SustainableTompkins] Hinchey Now a Co-Sponsor of Bill With Windpower Problems

[senecajean at aol.com]

HR 2337 now has 7 cosponsors; one of them is Maurice Hinchey. It looks to be a good bill in alot of ways but the burdens it would place on small scale windpower would undermine much of its carbon reducing measures. Loacally, this would seem to jeopardize what the town of Caroline is trying to do. Maybe also efforts in Enfield.  

I am not in Hinchey's district but someone needs to urgently talk to him about Subtitle D. (see below).

Jeanne


The bill would impose:

Imprisonment and a $50,000 fine for placing a wind turbine on private property without first gaining approval from bureaucrats including the head of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 

Impose a heavy-handed “solution” where there is no significant problem: 


The bill claims to protect birds by placing onerous new regulations on wind turbines.

Meanwhile, vastly more birds – on a scale of 10,000 to less than one – are killed by house cats and plate glass windows than by wind turbines.

The bill completely ignores the most serious effects of continued reliance on traditional fossil fuels, human-induced global warming, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has associated with mass extinctions of species. 


Please email or call your Representative to request that he or she oppose the Subtitle D Anti-Wind Energy Section of H.R. 2337.

use theses links: Action Alert; AWEA].

 

U.S.HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

       

 

MAURICE HINCHEY (22nd District) - City of Ithaca, Towns of Ithaca and Danby;

Also includes Sullivan, Ulster, Tioga, Broome, Delaware Counties. Other Cities and towns include Binghamton, Owego, Spencer, Poughkeepsie

     

NATIONAL: 2431 RAYBURN BUILDING, H. O. B., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515 

(202) 225-6335

   or

LOCAL: 123 SOUTH CAYUGA ST., SUITE 201, ITHACA, NY 14850 (607) 273-1388

http://www.house.gov/hinchey/

    

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