my sometimes-skeptical social commentary

UPDATE: I wrote a comment at the end of the original entry below, but I didn’t have an example. Here’s one from today’s paper:

The Steelwinds project had been receiving almost unanimous support in public meetings, but some residents voiced concerns Monday.

Nick Buscaglia of Wanakah said the eight turbines already operating across the border in Lackawanna have changed how he looks at the lake.

“It’s an awful-looking sight, to look out and look across the water and see those things,” he said. “We only have one lake and one chance to develop our waterfront, and we’re putting in windmills.”

END OF UPDATE.

Nice article about the Lackawanna/Hamburg windmills in today’s Buffalo News.

The eight towering windmills that make up the Steel Winds wind farm at the old Bethlehem Steel plant site in Lackawanna are up and running.

Nine months after developers broke ground on the unprecedented wind energy project, the giant blades can now be seen spinning in the strong, steady gusts off Lake Erie — and they are not only generating electricity. They’re creating a buzz.

(read the full story)

Here’s a picture I took of the windmills (and apparently the News photographer stood in the same spot that I stood in when he took his picture):

Can anyone explain to me why these awesome windmills would be considered as a negative visual impact? The old rusting industrial site that was abandoned was better looking? Makes no sense to me.

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