Vermont is on the move ...to common sense!

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Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 4, 2015 at 2:14pm

I might have access to a big trailer, if my son doesn't have a vehicle sitting on it or lent it out at the very time it is needed.  Might have an experienced sign designer we could get to do her magic. Do you have a time or place in mind or just something on standby ready to put in service when wanted? Guess Veteran's Day parades might not be appropriate or permitted?

Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on October 4, 2015 at 12:13pm

I'll donate $100 to get started.

Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 3, 2015 at 10:29am

especially than in a state like vermont ,Democracy (

power to the people ) should mean something .....if it does not, Vermont 's reputation as a socialist state would be just a cover for well oiled cronyism.

Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on October 3, 2015 at 10:14am

Action is better than words, and Vermonters TAKE ACTION like a large movable sign. 

Email and editor letters have limited value when your competing against the wind industry and the Sierra Club with its well-oiled lobbying machine---action alert, embedded letter writing utility, automatic send to elected representatives, and linked in background papers.

One big sign and protesters with signs ALWAYS get media attention...it worked for P.R.O.P, Affordable health care and other groups.

Make the sign and forget about a paltry letter writing campaign.

Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 2, 2015 at 2:57pm

Paula indeed , Vermont is the home of self induced CO 2 guru Bill McKibben :www.billmckibben.com

Governor Peter shumlin is Baldacci reincarnated ,  Bernie Sanders , ex mayor of Burlington , and US Congressman for Vermont running now for POTUS considers global warming the biggest threat to the USA .....and  the Vermont legislature just voted  a  renewable energy law on steroid ( House Bill 40  (  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/11/vermont-governor-to... ) but the voices are mounting and some politicians are paying attention .

Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 2, 2015 at 2:23pm

The end of the article where the wind spokesperson says basically that they will prevail because 'people want a cleaner, energy independent future'.  That's it in a nutshell with why it has been so hard to get the public to stand up to the wind scam. I wish there was such a simple answer, just switch to wind and solar and no more sons, daughters go to fight in the mideast. No more respiratory illness, no more cancer, no more fearsome climate change that's going to wash us all into the ocean. This is a complicated problem and everyone wants a simple solution, but wind turbines aren't it. All those who want us to suck it up and take one for the greater good, poor deluded patsies. Why can't we all put our heads together and come up with some better ways to move us down the road to energy efficiency and sustainability? Oh, yeah, subsidies, tax breaks, and greed. I forget.

Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on October 2, 2015 at 9:11am

So who is donating a trailer and materials & labor to make a towable sign to take to Maine Town Meetings? FMM has the money and guilt, don't they?

Comment by Eskutassis on October 2, 2015 at 8:16am

Rather overwhelming!  Who gave the anti-wind side of the story to these citizens?  We should use their methods and information because clearly it worked.  The other side has gotten the upper hand here time after time.  This would put an end to wind in Maine if every town and unorganized territory got the same message and would make this kind of vote.