Published: May 15, 2009 10:01 pm      

Don’t let US Wind Force write its own regulations

The duped Allegany county public doesn’t know much about the US Wind Force, LLC, located in a five-employee office in Wexford, Pa.

A developer for sales and construction of projects, it has everything to gain and nothing to lose in decimating our tree canopies, while we can lose our whole Dan’s Mountain woodlands.

The result would be the same as if lost in uncontrolled wildfire . Another California company will sell the pitiful little power we generate for an Ohio company’s grid, which covers a lot of northeastern states extending to Canada.

The squirrels and deer will find no acorns after most of the oak trees are cut down. Hunters will find no game. Birds can’t build nests in concrete, nor fly freely in flocks in the “wrong direction” of the huge meat grinding blades. “Trooper Five” will have to be very careful also, and shy away from Dan’s Mountain flight path.

In the future, with such hard rains as we had recently, the town of Lonaconing can be pummeled by rock slides from erosion and find Georges Creek over the banks. After the runoff has subsided, there will be no tree roots to soak up the water and hold the soil for the underground flow replenishment.

When construction “messes with Mother nature” by breaking the water table, flooding is usually the result, even in flat land. No tree leaves will remain to add fresh cool oxygen and water to the atmosphere or clear out the carbon dioxide.

The bears, deer and wild turkeys can’t bring lawsuits for lost ecology, any more than the local people looking at their dry wells and destroyed homes.

No endangered species will be protected at all and there will be no citizen protection for mitigation of the nuisance noise, strobe effect, or lost property value. This can happen if US Wind Force has its way and you, the county commissioners, obligingly let it write its own regulations. I trust you will not.

Dorothy K. Biggs

Westernport