Voting With Their Feet?

HUNDREDS TURN OUT FOR WIND-FARM JOB FAIR:

Noble Environmental Power's wind-farm job fair drew a crowd of 350-plus, packing the Rainbow Wedding and Banquet Hall and lining up vehicles both sides of Devil's Den Road for a good quarter-mile.

The wind-energy company, with turbine farms planned for the towns of Clinton, Ellenburg and Altona, expects to hire about three-dozen employees for the national operations center to be established here.

"We are very committed to hiring from Clinton County and the North Country," Managing Director Dan Haas announced, standing beneath a glittering chandelier clad in a florescent-yellow work vest.
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The site for the operations center will be selected within 60 days, he said, in either Clinton or Franklin county.

From that facility, Noble would conduct operations for all its farms, which are presently located in six states with a total 244 turbines planned for this year and 300 more in 2007.

All projects would be run via an Internet connection staffed around the clock, Haas said, and the facility would handle such responsibilities as daily crew assignments, both local and remote, and serve as support center, performing such duties as payroll.

Parts for the massive turbines would be stored here as well.
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Some jobs require wind-energy experience, with preference given not only to locals but North Country natives who want to move back home.

The firm needs board operators and administrative staff as well as operation-and-maintenance workers who don't require high-elevation experience.

"These are long-term, what we believe to be, very good jobs," Haas said.

Entry-level jobs, Haas said, would pay between $15 and $20 an hour.

Poor schlubs. Apparently they don't understand there are no community benefits from these projects.