Tell Copeland, McDowell & DeLuca To Stop Hurting Delaware Business
These Senators who are on the take and clearly working for Delmarva power are not only negatively impacting our quality of life, and breaking the law, but recent studies show that they are depriving the state of a robust source of new tourism revenue.
Although some may argue that a wind farm is not a tourist magnet, current studies show the contrary.
For example, California’s Palm Springs wind farm offers daily tours marketing their excursion as the
“Ultimate Power Trip” to almost 12,000 curious tourists every year. Denmark, the leading country in
the world using and exporting wind energy, experienced a 25-percent increase in tourism in or
around their wind power farms.Research also indicates that popular vacation locales around the world with wind farms have not experienced a loss in tourism. Instead, people who came to vacation were curious and eager to spend money visiting the wind-power sites, buying T-shirts and other souvenirs, as well as being photographed with the giants. On a local note, Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson touted that the wind farm is “Renewable, it’s clean, it’s the future… And if they don’t work, they’re a helluva tourist attraction.”
Atlantic City, differing from other sites around the country, has been quick to embrace the wind farm idea. Although many people are philosophically in favor of alternative and clean energy, the “not in my backyard” mentality became a problem in some areas. However, most AC residents and local politicians were quite excited about the wind farm project.
Anthony Cox, president of the Venice Park Civic Association, described the view from his neighborhood as “pretty cool.” Local real estate agents are also impressed by a recent study that concluded that property values of homes with views of wind turbines rose faster than those of nearby homes without such views.
Scotland has also looked into the non-energy related benefits of wind power. A study dealing with tourism in Argyll turned up some surprising results.
When asked whether the presence of wind farms had a positive or negative effect on their impression of Argyll as a place to visit, over half (55%) of respondents maintained that it had a generally or completely positive effect, while one in three were ambivalent (32%). Less than one in 10 (eight per cent) felt that it had a negative effect.
Most tourists (80%) say they would be interested in visiting a wind farm if it were opened to the public with a visitor centre, with over half (54%) saying they would be “very interested.”
Why we allow Copeland, McDowell and Deluca to continue to stick up for one business (Delmarva Power) at the expense of the rest of the Delaware business community is beyond me.
I cannot wait to get down to Leg. Hall with my video camera this year. McDowell, Copeland, and DeLuca will be targets number 1, 2, and 3, respectively.
Their complete subversion and lack of decency in this debate is striking and completely ridiculous.
This must be corrected quickly. Or we are going to have serious structural problems in this state within this year. I can see them coming from energy market forecasts.
The more I learn about Tony DeLuca, the more I realize what veterans in DE Politics have been telling this neophyte is true: Thurman Adams is closer to Mother Theresa morally than he is to Tony DeLuca.
I talked to guy a on the phone the other day who told me how DeLuca got revenge on him not for anything he did to DeLuca but because of something his his father did to him before his father died.
Who knows? Perhaps the grandchildren are next.
How closely related are these three to the Delaware Public Policy Insitute! Someone or some group is pulling their puppet strings!
Where is the Independent Inspector General when we need him/her?
This whole debacle is far deeper than we can imagine! I don’t think its just about wind! its about health care! its about the economy! Its about not protecting or serving the Delaware public.
It shouldnt be too hard to prove that Harris does not live on Baynard Blvd, but Middletown, that he is not representing the district or his constituents!
If you look at the Pew Report I sent out today…the first item that Delaware failed in is:
Campaign Finance Reform we got an F!
These guys could give the Mob pointers!
Why can’t we find venture capital to get this wind farm going. Screw the General Assembly, PSC and Delmarva Power for their failure to not act on this.
Too many spineless jellyfish that won’t make this wind farm a reality.
Liz –
Where does McD live in Middletown? I’ll stake out his house if that is true.
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Even if it was built with venture captial, Blue Water would need to get a purchase agreement with Delmarva Power and Delmarva does nto want to do sign the purchase agreement becuase they make less on Wind Power electricity than they do on coal and natural gas.
That is the heart of this whole thing. All other arguments against wind power are pure bullshit.
Then we need to elect out all officials on both sides who will not act on this!
And Gary Stockbridge needs to be put in jail.
The simple fact is that if an energy source does not have a meter it doesn’t have much merit to the providers.
Our campaign is going to have a press event in Millsboro this Wednesday to lay out an ambitious renewable energy plan for homes, farms and small businesses. Wind power will be a huge part of the event.
It will be at Flexera Inc. off DuPont Hwy at 11 am.
Where does McD live in Middletown? I’ll stake out his house if that is true.
Dude…make it a tag team. We can call it a bi-partisan effort.
Plus, I want an excuse to sit in a car in a dark area while munching on red-dyed pistachios and spit the shells out the window. You may also call me Frank Drebin.
Seriously, though…I’d help. I just hope Delmarva doesn’t mysteriously and suddenly cut off our power.
You could be seasoned Karl Malden and I could be a brash young Michael Douglas.
What are you saying about my nose?!?!
What are you saying about your age?!?!?!?!?!
there is a family farm somewhere in Middletown, dont know exactly where! I do know that some people went to his home on Baynard Blvd..(where he shows up to get his mail), when we were there the mailbox was overflowing. I know that Potter when he ran against him, tried to make this an issue, not sure the outcome of that!
Perhaps look in the phonebook for McDowells in Middletown area..it might be there under his wife’s name or his sisters name…