NH Wind Farm - More NIMBY

This letter to the editor in the Nashua Telegraph is another deplorable case of NIMBY. More and more we hear the screeching about global warming and funding the islamic oil fanatics but when there is some small move to alleviate some of the energy concerns with a renewable resource the whining starts about the "view."

While you're reading this, if you glance out your window at a mountain ridge that you've grown to love and value, you should think about attending this meeting and voicing your opinion about mountain ridge protection.

In 1994, the Legislature recognized the value of its lakes and rivers, and fortunately, it enacted the Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act RSA 483-B. Is it time for the state to create similar regulations to protect its mountain ridges?

Tourism is New Hampshire's greatest economic engine. When was the last time a tourist asked directions to a power plant instead of to one of New Hampshire's scenic mountain vistas?

Although communities have enacted zoning regulations to protect the mountain ridges within their borders by restricting the height of facilities proposed to be built there, sadly, others haven't recognized the threat that projects like the Lempster wind power plant are to the character of their community.

Oh yes, got to drive out the shooting ranges because their a lead hazard or the noise is unpleasant, so they zone it to death retroactively. Wind farm may make my view slightly less, let's zone that to hell as well.

Is New Hampshire's historical obsession of minimal government intervention with property rights going to force us to stand by while one of the state's most valuable assets is destroyed by wind power plant developers erecting turbines along the backbone of the state?

WHAT? You have got to be shitting me. Do you honestly think that your view of my property should justify restricting what I do with it. It is my property. You think that I should take a financial punishment so that you have a pretty view? And I'm betting you assume that you should have no accountability for this. What an ass.

You can read the rest. You'll not be surprised that this imbecile is a real estate developer. Probably be fine if he could build a couple hundred high cost condos in front of those views, but should energy independence be the aim, screw that.