This project is out of scale. We need a Vermont solution on a Vermont scale.

The Hardscrabble project is only one of five industrial wind plants proposed for the ridgelines of the Northeast Kingdom.

Huge subsidies and tax incentives are heaped on wind developers - a government subsidy of over 60% of the cost of construction will come from your tax dollars.

As an LLC, a limited liability company, UPC has nothing to lose - unlike the Northeast Kingdom.

According to the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy, by the year 2025 industrial wind turbines will account for less than 1% of the nation's supply of electricity. Wind power will be a drop in the national bucket.

The impact of construction, turbine noise and blinking red strobe lights in the night sky are likely to devalue nearby property.

The project could cause soil erosion, changes in the water table, and have a negative impact on wildlife.

In a flawed permitting process, the State relies on impact studies by experts hired and paid by the developer ... hardly an uninterested party.

Industrial wind generates a few low paying jobs and causes a net loss of jobs in some sectors, upsetting the delicate balance of the economies of the Northeast Kingdom and Vermont.

Untouched ridgelines define Vermont's landscape - contruction roads, clear cut forests and 400 foot turbines do not.

Rather than littering our ridgelines with turbines, we must encourage renewable energy and conservation on a domestic and municipal level.