Town of Cherry Valley

REUNION FILES EAST HILL SITE PLAN APPLICATION:

Reunion Power is not waiting to see if there will be a moratorium in Cherry Valley.

Reunion's project manager David Little said Monday that after nearly two years, the East Hill Wind Farm site plan review application was submitted to the Cherry Valley town planning board last Friday.

Town planning board chairman Jeffrey Wait confirmed he had received the application documents from Reunion, but had not yet opened the package.

Wait said the application would not be available for review prior to the planning board meeting on Tuesday, July 18.

Little said the project, which at one time also included a second site on Cape Wycoff, would have 24 turbines.

"It is very much in line with what we have communicated to people," he said.

The East Hill facility will cover 1,200 leased acres of land from a dozen landowners. The actual footprint of the turbines is much less - about five percent, he said.

"The submission of their site plan review application is a last ditch attempt to subvert the orderly process of government here in Cherry Valley. Our supervisor had made clear to Reunion Power, both directly at public meetings and in print, that he expected them to proceed at a measured pace in order that the town might properly prepare itself. They have violated his trust," said Advocates for Cherry Valley member Andy Minnig.

Why is it that the opponents of windpower projects proclaim their opposition in such apocalyptic terms? I suspect this tendency turns off the undecided i.e. most of the community.

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