Lyme petition signers may have been deceived

Lyme petition signers may have been deceived

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
In September 2008, Albert Bowers, a member of the town of Lyme Planning Board, circulated a petition asking the town board to appeal Judge Hugh Gilbert's decision which had ruled in favor of those of us who wanted the very restrictive wind law which the town board had adopted thrown out.

Others who carried this petition were Charles R. Wilson, Muriel E. Barkley, Susan B. Warner, Susan Peters, Judith McGaughey, Peggy Ann Fikes, Richard Freshour, Patricia Hughes, Stephen Rutigliano, Gary Bird, Deanne Scanlon, Norman R. Alheim and our Planning Board Chairperson Anne Harris. All these people with the possible exception of one, live on the waterfront.

I feel it is shocking and unacceptable that Planning Board members carried a petition regarding a controversial topic which they are heavily involved in.

But I am even more concerned that people who signed this petition may not have understood what they were signing. If you signed this petition knowing that the law it asked to re-enact would prevent any wind company from ever doing business in Lyme, then you understood it correctly and I respect your right to stand up for your convictions. But if you signed it believing it was a good law which would allow responsible development by a commercial wind company, then you were greatly deceived
If this is the case, please let your town supervisor, Scott Aubertine, know it. Your name should be removed from that petition if you were deceived.

Julia Gosier

Three Mile Bay