Big Wind Tries Voter Payola in Vermont

Manhattan Institue ^

[ameribbean expat]

A foreign wind-energy company is in such a hurry to collect the maximum possible amount of subsidies from the U.S. Treasury that it has taken an unprecedented step: It has promised to share the federal gravy with individual voters in two Vermont towns, Grafton and Windham. Earlier this month, Spanish energy company Iberdrola announced that it plans to distribute about $565,000 per year among 815 registered voters in the two towns. The payments would continue for 25 years.

[Jimmy4Toes]

I live in Grafton and it’s not gonna pass.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Wind. Graft.

I guess the voters in Boondoggle Village and Corruption Falls are already on board.

[wastoute]

But this is not foreign entities influencing our elections...

[VTenigma]

The Searsburg wind project is going to destroy the largest single Beech stand in New England and the largest bear habitat in the state. So much for environmentally sound, but is all for the religion of wind so the greenies not only look the other way they actively support it. Hippocrates.

[Ezekiel]

Sue Minter, a Democrat, favors state control over siting. She’s being supported by fellow Vermonter Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and an ardent proponent of schemes that claim that the world can be run solely on renewable energy. Minter’s opponent on the November 8 ballot is Phil Scott, a Republican, who has vowed to protect Vermont’s ridgelines from wind-energy development. While the race is close, Scott can likely count on support from most or all of the voters who supported Peter Galbraith in the Democratic primary. Galbraith made opposition to wind energy the primary focus of his campaign.

IOW, the evil, environment-destroying developers that the Rats have been warning us about are themselves.

[delete306]

This need to stop NOW. There is absolutely NOTHING unsafe about nuclear. We need to upgrade the entire US fleet and build new reactors in every state. Neighborhoods could have clean cheap power if we installed nukes similar to those on subs.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Here’s the actual money shot, from National Review. The people get un gotz to destroy their landscape, the local government gets a money pot.

(815 total) “Voters in Windham, which will have 16 turbines, would each get $1,125 per year. Voters in Grafton, which will have eight turbines, would get $427 per year. *In addition*, Iberdrola will give the towns several hundred thousand dollars per year, which can be used to cut property taxes”.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441228/vermont-wind-energy-payments

[Chickensoup]

Iberdrola

Not a good company.

actually a really bad multinational.

[Deplorable American1776]

When I lived in Connecticut, I used to go to Harriman Lake in Wilmington. Last time I was there, the windmills were there and it spoiled the view. Whose bright idea was that - putting windmills in the Green Mountain National Forest???

[COBOL2Java]

The Searsburg wind project is going to destroy the largest single Beech stand in New England and the largest bear habitat in the state. So much for environmentally sound, but is all for the religion of wind so the greenies not only look the other way they actively support it. Hippocrates.

The Greek physician in the Age of Pericles, one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, has nothing to do with it. I think the word you're looking for is "hypocrites".

[VTenigma]

Yes I was.