Here we go again: Round 2
ROWE ? Unlike the nuclear reactor that stopped operating here in 1992, after generating electricity for more than 30 years, and unlike even the hydroelectric generators along the Deerfield River, turbines spinning in the wind might be a downright friendly way to make power ?and maybe even an attractive alternative to fossil-fuel power plants.
But don?t tell that to David Roberson or other members of the National Wind Watch, a 1½-year-old organization based in Rowe that tries to counteract what its members call the ?feel-good? image of wind energy.
Roberson, who?s vice president of the nonprofit group that tries to dispel wind power?s positive spin and help local opponents of wind projects everywhere, points to the chickens, goats, geese and other farm animals behind his house, and to the dozen years he and his wife spent living off the power grid in Hawley before moving here, as demonstrating his concern about the environment.
?I?ve always been interested in sustainability and always considered myself an ecological person,? said Roberson, eager to show he?s no mere NIMBY. He?d even contemplated building a wind turbine for his house before moving here eight years ago. But since the house was already hooked up to utility lines, he abandoned those plans and eventually began thinking of wind generation as an expensive, impractical proposition ?just to make a statement.?
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Another example of the county I live in. After years and years and years of hearing the Eco-Freaks crying about how generating electricty is wrecking the ecology, a group comes in and wants to erext a wind farm in Heath. Nope...no good. Now, they are looking at Rowe, a town of maybe
3,000 people and PLENTY of wind available...Nope.
"Not just another NIMBY", huh?
Wanna bet?
Nation Wind Watch, just another group opposed to anything...just like SprawlBusters...Google it...