I just read a report that said a bald eagle with a bullet hole was found on the ice on the Oswegatchie River.
The New York State DEC is pissed and wants you to rat out the perpetrator. They have even called in CSI to do ballistics to determine the weapon.
And, the killer, if caught, might have to pay $5,000 bucks and go to jail for 90 days.
Holy crap! Is this is the same New York DEC that is going to allow Acciona Energia and British Petroleum to expand the Wolfe Island bird and bat killing fields by putting 140 wind turbines in the middle of an Eastern Lake Ontario Flyway?
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Region 6 DEC Director, Judy Drabicki at one time was the environmental Lawyer for WPEG.
Her husband, Atty, Lee Willbanks was the aid to Darrell Aubertine during a time that Darrell was working hard to give Cape Vincent big wind, endorsing the conflicts of interest of our town councilmen, lying to his constituents about having wind leases and not declaring the money being paid to him for those leases.
It seemed to me that the DEC that I once respected was developing a Faustian relationship with big foreign industrial wind.
Good Morning JLL
I always wondered which of Aubertine's advisors helped him write the letter that not only endorsed the wind lease conflicts of interest but encouraged them and suggested the change the "guiding principles". It sounded like he was recommending that they ignore the codes of ethics.
June 15, 2006
Cape Vincent Town Board Members
P.O. Box 680
Cape Vincent, NY 13618
Re: Abstaining from Voting on the Location of
wind Turbines in Cape Vincent.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I regret that I was unable to attend the public hearing held on June 3rd. at which time the above referenced subject was discussed and I appreciate the opportunity to share my thought with you now.
Specifically, I would like to comment about the issue of whether a board member should abstain from voting on an issue. As elected representatives, we are responsible to make decisions for the benefit of our constituents and community. This project, which affects thousands of acres and dozens of property owners, has the potential to positively affect every resident. Whether through a reduced property tax rate or new economic opportunities, Messrs. Wood, and (2) Masons (three members with wind contracts) will certainly not be the sole beneficiaries should the project move forward.
While some may feel that these elected officials should abstain from voting on this matter-my belief is that they should not. If they are restrained from voting in this instance, then shouldn't the community decide now what the guiding principle will be for future abstention in different matters and with different representatives? i.e. voting on a tax rate that affects their personal property.
Healthy and positive discourse is mandatory in a democracy; however, governing by referendum is unwise. After careful reflection, I feel that it is ethically proper that in this case all board members should vote on the issue at hand. In fact, I believe it is their responsibility to do so.
Sincerely,
Darrel J. Aubertine.
JLL, Darrel Aubertine was in the Assembly and was hiding his own conflicts of interest with wind companies at the time of that letter.
The law is clear. No one can vote on matters where they serve two masters. Mr Slobbertine seems to wish to debate the very law that was written prohibiting conflict of interest and other ethics violations.
'Faustus, a reputed professor of the black art, a native of Germany, who flourished in the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, and who is alleged to have made a compact with the devil to give up to him body and soul in the end, provided he endowed him for a term of years with power to miraculously fulfil all his wishes. Under this compact the devil provided him with a familiar spirit, called Mephistopheles, attended by whom he traversed the world, enjoying life and working wonders, till the term of the compact having expired, the devil appeared and carried him off amid display of horrors to the abode of penal fire. This myth, which has been subjected to manifold literary treatment, has received its most significant rendering at the hands of Goethe, such as to supersede and eclipse every other attempt to unfold its meaning. It is presented by him in the form of a drama, in two parts of five acts each, of which the first, published in 1790, represents "the conflicting union of the higher nature of the soul with the lower elements of human life; of Faust, the son of Light and Free-Will, with the influences of Doubt, Denial, and Obstruction, or Mephistopheles (q. v.), who is the symbol and spokesman of these; and the second, published in 1832, represents Faust as now elevated, by the discipline he has had, above the hampered sphere of the first, and conducted into higher regions under worthier circumstances."
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These are people who have no concept of those principles that make America work. Last summer the SCOTUS ruled against a similar local conflict of interest situation. In his opinion, Antonin Scalia ruled that he very simple and basic codes of ethics regarding conflict of interest were vital to the working of a Democratic government at all levels. He said that those very simple an basic codes are not about to change. The Aubertine letter was in direct opposition to what our County was founded on.
The Wiley-King voters for wind took their ignorance of the Constitution a step further when they denounced the seasonal visitors and designed a law that would strip them of their legal right to vote. That law was intended for only those who would vote against them.
A prejudicial move.
They lied to many people who signed a petition that was used to pass that law.
Wiley-King followed it up with letters of intimidation of citizens who were not going to vote their way.
A violation of the 1963 Voter Act.
During Aubertine's Senate run, an anti wind coalition was formed and was very active from Hammond to Oswego.
Public servants from all levels of the County governments, businessmen, homeowners and citizens from all walks of life were attending the meetings.
Aubertine' s staffers, including Willbanks attended a Pulaski meeting. They told the group that Mr. Aubertine's message was that the industrial wind issue was a local rule issue. The coalition took that as meaning the only way we could have our say was through the voting process.
The windies recognized that the Coalition was a threat. They could not fight them with their failed industrial wind ideology, so they launched personal attacks against members. At one Coalition meeting held in Cape Vincent, a windie physically took down an active member of the Coalition.
Richard Kessel and his scheme of crapping up our Lake with wind turbines was sent packing by Jefferson County, Oswego County and soon followed by all the other Lake Ontario Counties. Kessel soon lost his NYPA job.
Aubertine lost his Senate seat to Pattie Ritchie and most of the Town of Cape Vincent wind lease conflicted officials have been removed via the voting process.
To that extent, home rule was working.
The coalition evolved into the State wide COAX and has been heard loud and clear that it has a growing voter following and will oppose the Power NY, Article X legislation which strips communities of certain decisions on industrial wind sitings and other power facility sitings.
Anyone candidate who favors local rule by big industrial wind over small communities had better be prepared to lose thousands of votes to those citizens who are not willing to sacrifice their home values, environmental protection, lifestyles and health so that foreign wind developers, their community organizers and local partners can make a subsidy buck.
Be prepared for the sell out DEC to give taking permits for eagles. Do you realize that the wind developers get to count the kills? Do you realize that landowners who have signed leases to protect the developer in every way gather those kills and hide them from the counters and the public?
State law prohibits killing or injuring a Bald Eagle, and persons convicted of killing the bird are subject to a penalty of up to $5,000 and 90 days in jail. People who provide information leading to a conviction of a shooter are entitled to half of the fine paid, up to $2,500.
Will a similar law be put in place for landowners and wind companies who kill protected species with their turbines?
If so bounty hunting of bird and bat killers could become a new and profitable American sport.
Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals.
The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.
Faust? Occupy Wall St? Willbanks? Eagles?
I want my money! I want my money, dammit!
Same shit different person.
I wany my money! I want my money, dammit!
Hard to believe some working for wind companies would have so little regard for the community.
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