Wind Mills Visible From Cranberry!

According to the Times story by Geoff Hamill, the Greenbrier County Wind Mills will be visible from the Cranberry Wilderness and other areas in the National Forest. The problem with West Virginia is that it still has no clue as to planning and its vision of itself; thus we have Wind Farms next to Wilderness areas. It's a simple problem really in that you can not be two things at once, you can not have your cake and eat it too. So if tourism and the last true pristine environment is your "meal ticket" then why on earth try to plow roads and put up wind mills and have electric towers etc. spoil all that. Do we not trust our instincts that Wild Wonderful West Virginia is our bread and butter and when it becomes "Open for Business" that part of the life of West Virginians that we all love will be lost forever. When you remove mountain tops they don't grow back!!!!!

By the nature Windmills work, they will always be seen from long distances. Go the web and look at the wind maps.
But more than this, coal is opposed, drilling is aopposed, windmills are opposed, and nukes are opposed.
Everything you touch or used depends on power, given this society's lifestyle how do you propose we power it.

Isn't coal a strength?

Choices do have to be made, The citizens of Pocahontas elected you as County Commissioner that was their choice, if those same people ( a majority) opposed your viewpoint and wanted windmills or gas wells would you still represent them or your own values?

It seems that people move to Pocahontas for the beauty, slow pace of life and the natives wish it to progress with industry, gas production and logging. Most of your migrants are very active and their voice is heard but they probaly don't represent a majority. How do you decide? Majority rule? I respect your ideas but you as an elected official have a responsibilty to represent the people who voted for you, don't you?

I assume that the windmills you speak of, are in Greenbrier Co. I assume you don't like looking at them, I enjoy them because they represent man's abilty to be inventive. Do property rights come in to play. Does West Vaco Meade not have the right to have the windmills. What if they said don't look that way is that their right. We all value different things, if you were a logger, an excavation contractor, a windmill erector, or a gas driller you would have different values.

There are some very rundown homes in Pocahontas that are an eye sore should they be torn down in the name of tourism. What if water quality was not an issue with drilling for gas and there is massive volumes of gas under Pocahontas would that be a strength?
I seems that each person has a narrow view of what is best according to his own intersts and heaven knows that we can always find a justification for opposing anything.
We must realize that we are all in this together and each of use will have to accept good with bad. Pocahontas is part of WV and WV is part of the USA and the USA part of the world so no man is an island. A few weeks ago you spoke of your diesel tractor and I assume you drive to work, are you damaging the environment? What if your neighbor said I don't hear your tractor, would you stop?

It seems that anything that is proposed is going to be opposed by someone. How do you break the grid lock. An attorney makes his living from controversy and having people decide in his favor. I don't believe attorneys should be elected officials and probably that would be a majority view but should it happen or would I be infringing on your rights?
As far as coal goes, that is tied drectly to WV's survival. That coal is tied to about everyone's livelyhood in southern WV and amajor tax base in WV. I will listen to the anti-coal people when they are willing to live without electricity for a month, go out and throw the switch and don't use it in your home, don't buy gas, chances are that electricity played a part in you clothes they have to go, if you have a wood stove it was made with electricity can't use it before you use anything think if electric played a part if it did do without for a month. Let me know how it goes! God knows that you could not practice law with out power or post on this site.

Same old story, you support coal then you must want to destroy the environment. I get so tired of that response when coal is brought up. Yes coal mining in the past has been distructive, but laws are in force now that has eased the destruction, does more need to be done, absolutely!
Those same big coal companies that own Charleston are the ones that have promoted the regulations to drive the smaller companies out that could not afford to comply.
What was the safety steward's name I would like to speak with him, I find it hard to believe that he reported directly to Blankenship. You can bet if Don Blankship was Union he would be their "King" and Mountain Top removal would not be an issue. The squable about Mountian Top removal is not environment it is about the UMWA.
I was in the flood area this week every coal company down there was working to clean up. I know what you are thinking "they caused it they should have to clean it up" so you don't have to go there; anyway there will be law suits a plenty and many justified. Many people had put up signs thanking the coal companies for their help. When we had massive flooding in Pocahontas was it Mountain Top removal or massive rain fall.

I am a contractor, what is a "fair profit", is it on each job, each year. Is there such thing that I make a mistake, is there an "unfair loss"? Should I be guaranteed a fair profit so I don't worry about a loss or I try to make as much I can so when that bad job or year comes I can survive to work again.

Attorneys live by someone being liable or to blame, I say when it rains 6 inches in 4 hrs it is nature. You know as well as I do the law is not a perfect document, that is how attorneys make their living, the law is subject to interruption.

Joe
I appreciate your response. Even though it seems sometimes I am trying to promote an arguement, I am not. The exchange of reasoning and ideas allows you to let me know where you are coming from and I hope my posts do the same for you.

I don't know where the quote comes from, maybe scriptures "Come, let us reason together"
This is what will alow us to survive.

If you would, let me know how you feel about deep well gas drilling.

It doesn't have to involve the "Z" word but I do think West Virginia ought to have a talk with itself to determine its future rather than waking up to see a future outside interests have put on us.