BP used their surrogate organization Voters For Wind to thwart efforts to craft a wind law.

 May 2010~   Voters for Wind were successful in derailing Cape Vincent’s efforts to enact a wind law. 

Cape Vincent has made several unsuccessful attempts to develop a zoning law to properly address the siting of industrial wind towers.

A committee convened in 2010 and over the course of the process they had reached a consensus on a wind law.  However through the efforts of wind lease holders and a Voter for Wind spokesperson, that agreement was sabotaged.

 A wind lease holder and Voter for Wind spokesperson introduced a spread sheet and data containing facts and figures to support a less restrictive developer friendly wind law .The lease holding committee members agreed with the VFW spokesperson consequently subverting the process. 

  Three days after this last wind law committee meeting, BP’s business developer, Jim Madden sent a letter to the Cape Vincent Town Board containing the exact same data that the Voter for Wind spokesperson had presented to the wind law committee as her own. .  

 DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED  to the TOWN of CAPE VINCENT, 
by BP PROJECT DEVELOPER, JIM MADDEN