Actually, this is a view from the Peace Bridge which crosses the Niagara River at Buffalo. The view is through my Greyhound window and shows the (8 – count the blades) Clipper turbines on the huge slag piles of the old Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna. Look how high the slag is over the ice on Lake Erie. The turbine towers are over 300 feet tall, so the slag pile is at least 100 feet high - that's the way we used to do it - just dump our debris in the Great Lakes. Cleveland did that too - Burke Lakefront Airport is on the old City dump.
However, this could though be the view from Dike 14 looking over Whiskey Island, the sewer facility, two marinas, and Edgewater Park. We could have this view within 12 months time.
But the members on the Cuyahoga County Regional Energy “Task Force” (listed below) DON’T WANT THIS VIEW from Dike 14. WHY NOT? Who concocted this list? Was the list vetted in a public process?
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Bill Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Task Force Chair and Policy Committee
Committee Chairs:
Saurabh Lawate, Global Commercial Manager - Industrial Gear and Specialty Products, Lubrizol,
Chair, Technical Development Committee, Member Finance & Economics Committee
Lou McMahon, Attorney, Thompson Hine LLP,
Chair, Legal & Regulatory, Member, Policy Committee
David Nash, Attorney, McMahon DeGulis LLP,
Chair, Policy Committee, Member, Legal & Regulatory Committee
Michael Wager, Attorney, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP,
Chair, Finance & Economics Committee
Andrew Watterson, Sustainability Manager, City of Cleveland,
Chair, Site Evaluation Committee
Members:
Linda Abraham-Silver, Director, Great Lakes Science Center,
Policy Committee
Paul Alsenas, Director, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission,
Finance & Economics Committee, Site Evaluation Committee
Steve Dever, Chief Trial Counsel, Cuyahoga County Prosecutors' Office,
Technical Development Committee, Finance & Economics Committee
Joseph Jasper, Jr., Technology Transfer Officer, Cleveland State University,
Legal & Regulatory Committee, Technical Development Committee
Robert Klaiber, PE, Cuyahoga County Engineer,
Site Evaluation Committee, Technical Development Committee
Susan Luria, Vice President, Attraction and Expansion, TeamNEO,
Site Evaluation Committee
John Mitchell, Attorney, Thompson Hine LLP,
Site Evaluation Committee, Finance & Economics Committee
Jack Myslenski, Executive Vice President, Parker Hannifin,
Technical Development Committee
Paul Oyaski, Director, Cuyahoga County Department of Development,
Finance & Economics Committee, Policy Committee
Clarence Rogers, Former Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio,
Legal & Regulatory Committee
David Rosenberg, Manager, Market Development for the Americas, GE Energy,
Technical Development Committee
Richard Stuebi, Fellow for Energy and Environmental Advancement, The Cleveland Foundation, Policy
Committee, Finance & Economics Committee, Legal & Regulatory Committee
Deborah Sutherland, Mayor, City of Bay Village,
Site Evaluation Committee
Sohan Uppal, Vice President for Technology, Eaton Fluid Power Group,
Technical Development Committee
Dr. Larry Viterna, NASA Glenn Research Group,
Technical Development Committee
Tyrone White, Business Development Coordinator for Wind Energy,
Policy Committee and Technical Development Committee
Matthew Zone, Councilman, Ward 17, Cleveland City Council, Policy Committee
Although this list of names was not included as required on the agenda prior to the County Commissioners meeting, the acceptance of these members was voted on and approved unanimously by the County Commissioners. See Commission Meeting Minutes [1]
for August 10, 2006.
5. Department of Development, recommending to establish the Cuyahoga Regional
Energy Development Task Force, effective 8/10/2006.
Considered and adopted by unanimous vote.
An additional item, not on the printed agenda, was offered for consideration:
Department of Development, submitting recommendations of persons to serve on the
Cuyahoga Regional Energy Development Task Force for the period 8/10/2006 –
8/9/2007:
a) William D. Mason, Chairperson
b) Robert C. Klaiber, Jr.
c) Michael Wager
d) Deborah Sutherland
e) Andrew Watterson
f) Clarence Rogers
g) Louis McMahon
h) David Nash
i) Paul Alsenas
j) Paul Oyaski
k) Richard Stuebi
l) Sarabh Lawate
m) Susan Luria
n) Linda Abraham-Silver
o) Steve Dever
p) Joe Jasper
q) John Mitchell
Considered and adopted by unanimous vote.
Also of note is the fact that there is no one from GEO [3] on the list. I know that Steve Watt and Fletcher Miller (among others from GEO) have spent years and hours and hours of their own time on NEO wind issues. Steve Watt and Fletcher Miller (among others in NEO) are MUCH MORE informed and educated on wind energy than most anyone on the list.
Why was no GEO member included on the “task force”?