The international panel on…

The international panel on climate change (IPCC) recently stated that the average temperature of the Earth had increased about 1 deg.C. since the start of the industrial revolution. The cause of this increased temperature is assigned to carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. The same report states that al nations must take emergency action to reduce the use of fossil fuels to zero by the middle of the 21st century.

One way to comply with this request is to replace fossil fuels used for the production of electricity by means of wind powered generators, the White Pines wind project is an example of this.

Planet Earth is at a critical point in its history. It is at a point where it could move away from the Holocene epoch, (characterised by glacial/inter-glacial limit cycles lasting about 100,000 years) into the Anthropocene epoch, which will be characterized by increasing global temperatures, forced by natural feedbacks associated with the release of carbon dioxide and methane, into a range of temperatures which may be fatal to most life forms on Earth. Once the Earth is afflicted by these feedback processes, it will be virtually impossible to reverse them. Some scientists think that these feedback processes will start once the Arctic Ocean is largely free of ice in late summer ( perhaps by 2020).

It is critically important that the government take action now to reduce the use of fossil fuels. I acknowledge that the White Pine project has its shortcomings as a reliable (continuous) source of electricity, but it is a significant source of carbon dioxide free energy when the wind is blowing.

i am asking you to allow this project to proceed.