THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010
link--> here<-- Last fall, the Henderson Town Council appointed the Citizens Committee to review last July's Article IX proposal on wind generation facilities in the town and make recommendations to the board. This was no easy feat. The Citizens Committee, made up of five local residents, put in thousands of hours of research, meetings, travel to Northern New York communities and other preparation for their report. After six months of exhaustive work, the committee on April 23 presented their findings to the town board. This report is essentially a road map for the future of industrial wind development in the town of Henderson — a road map for the future of Henderson itself. One cannot guess what the community would be like if much of it is immersed in turbines. Take a trip to Lowville, a beautiful community immersed in history and Victorian homes. There is nowhere one can look without seeing turbines. The committee's efforts looked at visual, economic and health effects to come up with their conclusions. They spoke to groups and officials in other Northern New York communities, scientific experts and researched how this affects real people. Their findings are the insurance citizens of Henderson need to preserve our community. Preservation of our community is the destination. The town board is the driver of the vehicle. If they take us down the wrong road, the beauty and tranquility we know will be forever lost. The economy in Henderson will lose, property owners will see their values drop, tourism will drop. The total sum of this type of development will be devastating. Please write to your town board in support of the Citizens' Committee findings. Go to board meetings. Help preserve Henderson. We don't want this town board to take us down the wrong road to a place where we can never come back. This report is available at the Henderson town board website, http://www.townofhendersonny.org/, search for "citizens committee."
Margaret Golovey
Henderson
The writer is president of the Heart of Henderson, Inc.
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