Hamlin Preservation Group - Clinton County

Marble River receives regulatory approval

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:49:55 -0400

Another significant benefit for the environment is moving forward

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1847631020080619

Noble IPO

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:27:16 -0400

Here is a chance for even the NIMBY activists to join into the green revolution. Apparently NOBLE is going to spin off from J.P. Morgan with a public offering. It would be a chance to support the environment and to possibly profit as the local communities have with this clean alternative energy source.

http://thestandard.com/news/2008/05/09/noble-environmental-power-files-375m-wind-power-ipo

More local benefits from the wind energy

Sat, 03 May 2008 12:00:11 -0400

Amazing isn't it? All the early hype about towns not getting any tax benefit seems to have evaporated as the benefits keep pouring in. Here is another recent article about school budgets increasing and taxes decreasing. Wonderful story isn't it?

http://www.pressrepublican.com/archivesearch/local_story_122054557.html

Effie's magic fingers

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:42:07 -0400

Effie, why is it that you limited people's ability to post responses to your postings?

Wind Farm's Moving Along in Franklins

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:39:34 -0500

Seems like a lot of positive progress lately in Franklin county with the approval of two additional wind parks. Is Anne going to boycott this county too?

MIT Studies benefits of wind in the Northeast

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:27:43 -0400

Here is an article on how strong winds in the winter efficently offsets fossil fuel use. http://www.physorg.com/news9495.html

Clinton and Ellenberg Windpark have groundbreaking event

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:34:19 -0400

Clinton and Ellenberg townships express excitement about this windpark moving forward. Wins praise as clean source of energy to power 60,000 homes.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/breakingnews/local_story_174152323.html

Question for Anne Britton

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:07:36 -0400

Hi Anne. You mentioned more than once that you are personally responsible for stopping the noble clinton project and that they tried to pay you off. As a participant in this project, I find it interesting that you hold yourself responsbile for the project timing - which as far as I know was just delayed due the the long amount of time it took to get the AMCOE permits and the state DEC permits. And of course the time it took to put together a quality DEIS study. This project has started and looks like (by evidence of the activity) to be moving along quite nicely. It also recieved state contracts. I'm curious - just what did you do? And what are you planning to do next since all the permits are evidently in place? Also - I'll be happy to share my experices in this project - including my own observations with the so called noise and vibrations, and ice throw etc. Just ask and I'll try and provide some real actual information. So far its been an extremely postive experience.

Wind-park work may start soon

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:31:13 -0400

PLATTSBURGH — Noble Environmental hasn't set the date, but ground-breaking on its three wind-energy parks comes ever closer.

"We have equipment available locally," said Project Manager Mark Lyons. "When we get the go-ahead, it will be close at hand."

PERMITS PENDING

Building permits from the towns of Altona, Clinton and Ellenburg are ready to go, pending a few formalities.

"Little things," said Altona Town Supervisor Larry Ross, naming insurance certificates and road-restoration bonds.

Wind farm proposal in Clinton County

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:10 -0400

For people who call the town of Ellenburg home, these green pastures are sacred ground. Barbara Kramer, the Vice President of Neighbors of the North Country, said, “It is my utopia. Do you know what that means? Paradise. And this is paradise. And it is going to be devastated forever. ”

Neighbors of the North Country is a group opposed to Marble River Wind Farm, a project to build 400 foot tall wind turbines throughout Clinton County. But the project manager, Charlie Turlinkski said the 109 turbines built in the towns of Ellenburg and Clinton alone will create enough power for 60,000 homes.

NOBLE ENVIRONMENTAL POWER TO HOLD NORTH COUNTRY JOB FAIR

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:23:52 -0400

CHURUBUSCO, NY -- Noble Environmental Power announced today that it will hold a job fair on Tuesday, June 20 to discuss employment opportunities at its proposed Clinton County windparks and to accept applications. The job fair will be held from 6-9 p.m. at the Rainbow Room Banquet Hall, 47 Woods Falls Road in Altona.

Noble plans to fill the approximately three dozen long-term jobs at its proposed windparks in Altona, Clinton and Ellenburg. Most of the jobs will be in operations and maintenance but some positions will be in management and administration, with preference given to qualified Clinton County residents.

Review of the Noble DEIS for Altona - Abstract

Wed, 31 May 2006 11:45:35 -0400

Abstract:

1)Benefits claimed for wind power are inflated by failure to use realistic, published capacity factors. No evidence is presented to support industry claims that production of wind-generated electricity lessens fossil fuel consumption.

2)The quality of the DEIS is superficial and presentation is deceptive. The avowed goal of the company which prepared the DEIS is fast permitting, not protection of environment or community.

Review of the Noble DEIS for Altona - Detail

Wed, 31 May 2006 11:45:35 -0400

1. Assertions about the project’s public benefit

Noble Environmental makes assertions about the positive effects its product, wind-generated electricity, will have on reduction of emissions from other power plants (DEIS p. 4 and 1-16). These assertions are based on the stated assumption (p. 1-16) that this 102 MW windplant (68 turbines x 1.5 MW per turbine) will indeed deliver 102 MW of electric power to the power grid. This assumption is inflated and deliberately deceptive with regard to the project’s public benefits. General Electric, the turbine manufacturer, in a report to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) on March 4, 2005, stated, “Capacity factors of inland wind sites in New York are on the order of 30% of their rated capacity. Their effective capacities, however, are about 10% [of rated capacity], due to both the seasonal and daily patterns of the wind generation being largely ‘out of phase’ with the NYISO load patterns.”2 The erratic nature of wind and the impossibility of matching supply to demand with wind-generated power make it the least preferred power source for the Independent Systems Operator (New York State power grid), which does not want the proportion of wind-generated power to approach current goals of the NYS Renewable Portfolio Standard (25% for all renewable sources) because of grid stability issues and because the NYISO’s need is for capacity (power generated at the specific time to match needs) not energy (power generated at other times) (testimony presented at the RPS Hearing of the Energy Committee of the NYS Assembly, March 7, 2006). NYSERDA further states that wind power can produce, at most, 1.7% of NY State’s electricity needs.3 Noble Environmental is aware of these limitations and writes with intent to deceive about proposed project benefits in the DEIS.

Amid Rolling Hills, a Push Against Whirling Turbines

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:28:37 -0400

PRATTSBURGH, N.Y., July 19 - At age 59, Tom Cadigan says he is "winding down."

A few years ago, he sold his appliance store in a neighboring town so he and his wife, Kay, could move to a mobile home on land they own here. On summer evenings, they like to take in the view of the rolling hillsides that surround their home and watch the birds visit their backyard feeder. "It's very, very peaceful," he said.