THIS LETTER WAS SENT TO NYSERDA

"To date, Global Winds knows of no public opposition to Global Winds’ project in Prattsburgh. Furthermore, numerous discussions with landowners have yielded an unprecedented support for Global Winds’ project."

The above is 2.4.2 -- Community Outreach -- It is part of the information that Global Winds Harvest must send to NYSERDA telling how they have worked with the community to get their input before building the towers.

Last winter Erich Bachmeyer came to our home and told us about plans to build a wind tower on the land behind us. At the time we told him that we were distressed and surprised about this project because our neighbors had previously gone out of their way to assure us that they had no intention of leasing their land. At a meeting with __________, which they initiated, they told us that they felt the impact of erecting wind towers on their land

would be greater on us than on them and they were not going to sign any leases.

We told Eric Bachmeyer that we have a family sugaring operation behind our home -- 30 or 40 maple trees and a cabin where we boil the sap in the spring. This cabin is close to the back border of our land. We told him that if his company built a wind tower so close to our property line that we would no longer have complete use of our woods -- it would no longer be possible to turn the sugar shack into a dwelling, as one of our children had hoped to do.

Eric originally told us that his company might be putting two wind towers behind us, with one of them as close as 800 feet from our home. Perhaps he thought that by telling us they would only be putting one tower up 1000 feet from our home (and I believe 500 feet from the property line) and that they would no longer put the access road along our boundary that we would be happy about the whole project.

I communicated to him that we felt this was not right. From what we have read and seen and heard for ourselves, the noise of the wind tower will intrude upon the use of our land. From what we have read about blade and ice throw, we will no longer be comfortable using our own woods. I am concerned about the flicker effect from the wind turbines. One of my children is particularly sensitive to phenomena of that nature. I believe the set backs should be no closer than one quarter of a mile, and I definitely think the matter of setbacks needs to be studied further to determine safety and noise. I also believe that whatever setback is determined to be appropriate should be applied to the boundary line and not the dwelling. If it is not desirable to have the wind turbine closer than a quarter of a mile from our house, then it is not desirable to put it closer than a quarter of a mile from the boundary line.

If Eric had spoken to our neighbors who have not signed leases he would have heard similar distress. Most of the neighbors we have spoken to in the past month had no idea that such a wind "farm" was being planned for our area. The people next door to us bought their home this past spring completely unaware that a wind "farm" was being planned on the adjacent

land. I do not know if the seller was aware either.

When Eric spoke to us last winter we thought we had no recourse. He told us that it was almost positive that he would begin building this past July. At that time we thought that since Prattsburgh had no zoning that we had no choice but to accept the wind turbine. We did not know about NYSERDA or SEQRA reviews that could involve community input.

Very truly yours,