This is happening within my own county, and it's difficult for very conservative folks to imagine that this could possibly be a GOOD thing. There's the aesthetic argument, some griping about birds being affected, but I think maybe *part* of it is the unspoken downstate-versus-upstate struggle.
The NYC metro area funnels off water from this region for its own use and is not cognizant of the fact that every spring, people die because they are reluctant to raise the floodgates and release a few million gallons that might prevent a flood or a road washout..... perhaps there are some resentments that "those people" down in in NYC are gonna get the bulk of the electricity produced here. "They" bring their city money up and purchase houses and price the locals out of the market. It's a conspiracy!
It's way too easy for people to forget how all of it stimulates the local economy. Upstate New York would basically be dirt-poor-like-Vermont if it weren't for the NYC taxbase.
I say bring on the wind turbines! More solar! Change it all to renewable energy. I'd much rather have a turbine spinning in my back yard than the Marcy South powerline marching over my land.:rolling eyes:
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David Foster Wallace had it right.
This is happening within my own county, and it's difficult for very conservative folks to imagine that this could possibly be a GOOD thing. There's the aesthetic argument, some griping about birds being affected, but I think maybe *part* of it is the unspoken downstate-versus-upstate struggle. The NYC metro area funnels off water from this region for its own use and is not cognizant of the fact that every spring, people die because they are reluctant to raise the floodgates and release a few million gallons that might prevent a flood or a road washout..... perhaps there are some resentments that "those people" down in in NYC are gonna get the bulk of the electricity produced here. "They" bring their city money up and purchase houses and price the locals out of the market. It's a conspiracy! It's way too easy for people to forget how all of it stimulates the local economy. Upstate New York would basically be dirt-poor-like-Vermont if it weren't for the NYC taxbase. I say bring on the wind turbines! More solar! Change it all to renewable energy. I'd much rather have a turbine spinning in my back yard than the Marcy South powerline marching over my land. :rolling eyes: