updated 1/10/2009
New Yorkers Speak Out About Industrial Wind Projects
Sue Sliwinsky (Sardinia, NY), "Wind Power is just pandering to special interests,"
The Times Herald
(Olean, NY), October 4, 2008
John Droz, Jr. (Brantingham Lake, NY), "Profit, not power, the major goal behind wind farms,"
The Observer-Dispatch
(Utica, NY), November 6, 2007
Jack Sullivan (Malone, NY), "Takes Issues with Wind Statistics,"
The Press Republican
(Plattsburgh, NY), Septebmer 7, 2008
Jack Sullivan, "Why I Voted Against Wind Power," July 22, 2006
Sen. James S. Alesi (D-Monroe Co.), "Siting wind farms requires plan,"
The Observer-Dispatch
(Utica, NY), May 22, 2007
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Other Opinions
Peter Glover and Michael J. Economides, "Wind Power Exposed: The Renewable Energy Source is Expensive, Unreliable and Won’t Save Natural Gas,"
Energy Tribune
(on line), November 25, 2008
Ronald Bailey, "Wind Breaks: Why the favorite energy source of environmental activists is unsustainable,"
Reason Magazine
, July 10, 2002
Glenn R. Schleede (fmr. New Yorker, now at Round Hill, VA), "False Renewable Energy Job & Economic Benefits Claims," October 30, 2008
J.A. Halkema, "Wind Energy: Facts and Fiction: A half truth is a whole lie" (Quantes Uitgeverij, 2006)
Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County, Inc.
CCCC's Wind Farm Backgrounder