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

[Tony Del Plato]

Hey Jeanne,
Thanks for this post. I'll forward the concerns you raised to Rep Hinchey
and Dan Lamb, his local rep. I'll send you their response. I'll be away
until Tues, but will also stop in his office mid week. Between now and then,
if you have any other info about this problem, please let me know. I do
think it's important to not write him off because he does a good job of
representing our area, even where we differ. If anyone is open to the
concerns you raised, he would be.
best,
Tony Del Plato

On 5/25/07, senecajean at aol.com <senecajean at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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>
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>
> 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
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> (202) 225-6335
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> or
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> LOCAL: 123 SOUTH CAYUGA ST., SUITE 201, ITHACA, NY 14850 (607) 273-1388
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> http://www.house.gov/hinchey/
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