Below is a rendering of the letter and below that is the letter as it was downloaded from the Public Service Commission website.
Ms. Katrina Landis October 30, 2012
Chief
Executive Officer
BP
Alternative Energy
501 Westlake
Park Blvd.
Houston, TX 77079
Reference: BP Cape Vincent Wind Power project
Dear Ms. Landis,
On
Tuesday evening, October 23, a public work session of the Town Council and the
Planning Board of the Town of Cape Vincent, NY was held for the purpose of
considering the proposed British Petroleum wind power project in our town.
Present
before us to inform us about the project and to respond to our questions was BP
Wind Power Development Director, Richard Chandler.
It
has become the norm in Cape Vincent for meetings of our Town Council and
Planning Board to be recorded. Enclosed for your reference is a video disc
recording of the full length of Tuesday's meeting.
We
provide you with this recording in the hope that you will view it and thereby
better inform yourself about the receptivity of our people and their town
government to the proposed BP project. More than once Mr. Chandler asserted his
confidence that the BP project enjoys our community support and that BP is not
prepared to move forward in communities where such support is lacking. We found
it hard to believe our ears. The great majority of our residents do not want
your project in our town and they want any future development to be compatible
with our zoning laws.
To
be frank, Ms. Landis, we were astonished and taken aback by Mr. Chandler's persistent
unwillingness to respond to very straightforward and pertinent questions respectfully
asked of him by each of the undersigned town officials. What happened Tuesday
evening was anything but a candid and open discussion with us regarding the
aspects,
implications and history of your wind project here. Mr. Chandler simply refused
to have that conversation, answering our questions only in the narrowest
fashion possible often to the point of being completely unresponsive and
patently evasive. To say this was a frustrating evening for the government of
the Town of Cape Vincent would be an understatement.
Again, we
ask you to view the enclosed recording and make every other effort to
understand what has obviously escaped Mr. Chandler, Cape Vincent values its
small- town roots and does not want what we consider the industrial blight that
will accompany your project. We also ask that you re-evaluate your company's
plans, because what you propose for Cape Vincent is not only incompatible with
our community's vision, but is also incompatible with BP's wind projects
elsewhere, since there are many more people here and we are committed to
protecting their health, safety and general welfare.
Thank you
for your close attention to this and we would very much welcome your response.
Sincerely
yours,
Urban
Hirschey - Supervisor
Brooks of
Bragdon – Deputy Supervisor
John Byrne – Town Board
Clif
Schneider – Town Board
Richard Macsherry
– Planning Board Chair
Robert Brown
– Planning Board
Cyril Cullen
– Planning Board
Paul Docteur
– Planning Board
Cc:
Mr. John
Graham Mr. Omar Aboudaher
President Vice President, Business Development
BP Wind
Energy BP
Wind Energy
501 W. Lake
Park Blvd. 700 Louisiana St., 33rd floor
Houston
Texas 7709 Houston Texas 7709
Hon. Jaclyn A. Brilling
Sec., N Y S Public Service Commission
Three Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12223 – 1350
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