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Numbers are right, mountains too important

The Manchester Journal|Don Haake, Manchester |February 24, 2006
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But it is just not the right idea at the right time...those mountains are just way too important to too many of us for many, many reasons. In another place and time, maybe. But not now and not anytime soon.


Just finished reading Patrick Monroe's review of the Wind Farm forum. He noted that the results were greatly skewed because most of the Village residents were opposed or strongly opposed to the Wind Farms in our area.

Obviously Mr. Monroe believes that those who support the Wind Farms just didn't show up. Did he ever consider that almost all of the Village (and possibly Town) residents actually oppose the Wind Farms. If that were the case, then these results were not skewed but were quite accurate.

And I believe they were accurate. I hope they were accurate.

It sure seems to me that a number of very well meaning folks believe that Wind Farms are important and important for Manchester. It also seems to me that a small minority have an …
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Just finished reading Patrick Monroe's review of the Wind Farm forum. He noted that the results were greatly skewed because most of the Village residents were opposed or strongly opposed to the Wind Farms in our area.

Obviously Mr. Monroe believes that those who support the Wind Farms just didn't show up. Did he ever consider that almost all of the Village (and possibly Town) residents actually oppose the Wind Farms. If that were the case, then these results were not skewed but were quite accurate.

And I believe they were accurate. I hope they were accurate.

It sure seems to me that a number of very well meaning folks believe that Wind Farms are important and important for Manchester. It also seems to me that a small minority have an agenda (not necessarily a bad thing) to use this process to get the Wind Farm approved for our area, irrespective of what the rest of us really believe.

But it is just not the right idea at the right time...those mountains are just way too important to too many of us for many, many reasons. In another place and time, maybe. But not now and not anytime soon.

Source:http://www.manchesterjournal.…

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