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Rolmops, The accident in the gulf was caused by negligence. They finished pouring their concrete (underwater) 20 hours before the opened the head. It didn’t hold when the accident happened above water. (concrete on land actually takes 28 days to set up properly) Their management & owners were greedy & wanted to get it on-line quick. BP has admitted that they will pay for it and aren’t even worried about the finances. Electric companies are also greedy & negligent in many ways. Look at how electric poles and lines crisscross the state with no rhyme or reason. Look at how both sides of the streets have poles & lines. Look at how many are leaning over & how many are covered with brush/trees. Look at your electric bill & compare your electric delivery charge vs the actual cost of electricity. That money is going into new lines, not cleaning up the old ones. They abandon the old lines & put up new ones. They even argue with the telephone company over who owns the poles & who has to clear the trees around them. (Even though so many people have cell phones) Look at Russell Station. Just before RG&E shut it down, they said it would take $500M to make it efficient. NYPA is just after money (tax credits) & want it before anyone wises up. They want $3B for new power generation that would almost equal Russell. Russell is owned by Iberdrola. (along with RG&E and NYSEG) NYPA is NOT a state agency. They are an independent electric company that owns generation plants towards the East. What are they doing in Iberdrola territory? The strategy is obvious: NYPA pushing it might be more palatable to US citizens because its name sounds like a NYS agency whereas Iberdrola sounds like a foreign owned company. Wind proponents say they hate coal and tout what Europe & Germany are doing. I saw a program the other night about the world’s largest machines. The 3 largest machines in the world are in Germany and are used to dig, mine & transport coal to a huge coal burning electric generating facility on the site. That facility is extremely efficient, extremely environmentally friendly and that single plant supplies 30% of Germany’s electric needs. NYPA wants to put turbines in the lake and doesn’t care about the environment, the citizens or anything else. They don’t care that turbines aren’t nearly as efficient as other sources and that they take up much more space. They are a “FOR PROFIT†company that’s looking for a buck regardless of the consequences for you or me. They are trying to ride the politically correct “green wave†for as much as they can get. IN NYS, if you want to put up a building, you have to submit soil tests & if polluted or near a wetland, you have to remediate it first. The Rochester Embayment is a USEPA Area of Concern. It’s a biggie. They want to ignore that because there currently aren’t any laws about digging up sediments or spreading pollution from the seabed. They need to be told NO TURBINES out there by the people. They won’t go out of business; they’ll be forced to develop a “for real efficient†method to generate electricity. If there really was an electric shortage they’d change their policy of letting the big demand users pay less for power than the average person who conserves it. I don't mean to beat up on you, but there's much much more to it than just us silly old fishermen having a place to fish. Tom B. (LongLine)