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Home My WebLink Aboutcomment letter Gerdy Park City Wind FW_ TY - Zoom vsFrom: Karle, Darcy Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 3:02 PM To: Cavanaugh, Kimberly Subject: comment leer Gerdy Park City Wind FW: TY - Zoom vs. In Person meeng Hi Kim, Please forward this comment leer to the Commission and copy the file. Thank you Darcy From: Greg Gerdy [mailto:greg.gerdy@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 10:14 PM To: Karle, Darcy Cc: Hoopes, Edwin; Greg Gerdy Subject: TY - Zoom vs. In Person meeting Dear Ms. Karle, Thank you to the Barnstable Conservation Commission for the Zoom Only meeting tonight. Our best regards to Mr. Lee who chaired the meeting. We look forward to the Sept meeting. As you and the BCC members resoundingly heard, the strong and steadfast opposition to Park City Wind remains and continues. Many unanswered questions and concerns are still up in the air. Meanwhile, the developer and their team members are simply dismissing the Barnstable citizens’ serious environmental and marine and ecological concerns with incomplete and unscientific answers such as “we don’t anticipate” OR “it is not anticipated.” (“Anticipation” is an old song from Carly Simon.) But anticipation does not belong to an environmentally-sensitive and geotechnicallly-heavy project such as Park City Wind. We need engineering and science-based answers and studies to buttress the developer ’s claims and statements. For instance, the EMF response from the team member was particularly insufficient and lacked scientific substance. The “sand waves” response was a deja vu experience - kindly refer to the DENIAL of the Park City Wind application by the Edgartown Conservation Commission for lack of transparency. The developer needs to crystallize and clarify this environmental concern with scientific and engineering explanations and studies. Yes, Vineyard Wind is being started but Please, the developer cannot and should not use this elementary project as a proof of expertise and experience. This is still experimental- NO actual power has been produced yet. Lastly - We also note that based on our research, Ken Fitzgerald is a mechanical (not geotechnical) engineer - please correct us if we are wrong. We need to hear from the “geotechnical engineering” experts from the developer regarding this heavily-geotechnical engineering project involving HDD and micro tunnel processes. Not all engineers are created equal. We hope you understand. We are talking about our Precious, Irreplaceable and Beloved Craigville Beach, a true and unique Cape Cod Natural Treasure. Wishing you and the BCC a lovely evening. Thank you. Maria and Greg Gerdy Begin forwarded message: From: "Karle, Darcy" <Darcy.Karle@town.barnstable.ma.us> Date: July 19, 2023 at 4:12:40 PM EDT To: Greg Gerdy <greg.gerdy@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: Friendly Reminder: Zoom vs. In Person meeting Hello Mr. Gerdy, The Commission voted to connue conducng hearings remotely. Darcy From: Greg Gerdy [mailto:greg.gerdy@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 3:13 PM To: Karle, Darcy Cc: Ells, Mark; Heather Swails-McCarron; Matthew Levesque; Hoopes, Edwin; Mary Chalke; Bob Schulte; Greg Gerdy Subject: Friendly Reminder: Zoom vs. In Person meeting Dear Ms. Karle, Resending this as a friendly reminder, since you have not responded to the hybrid / in-person hearing request from last week. Thank you. Maria and Greg Gerdy Begin forwarded message: From: Greg Gerdy <greg.gerdy@yahoo.com> Date: July 11, 2023 at 2:12:12 PM EDT To: Darcy Karle <darcy.karle@town.barnstable.ma.us> Cc: Bob Schulte <bob.a.schulte@gmail.com>, Mary Chalke <marychalke1@gmail.com>, Heather Swails-McCarron <hmccarron@capecodonline.com>, Matthew Levesque <matthewlevesque02648@gmail.com>, edwin.hoopes@town.barnstable.ma.us, Greg Gerdy <greg.gerdy@yahoo.com> Subject: Zoom vs. In Person meeting Dear Ms. Karle, Thank you again for the continuance re: Park City Wind project. It was appreciated by the Barnstable citizens. It’s worth noting that there are now very few “purely Zoom” meetings as the worst of the pandemic is well over and things are relatively stable and BACK to NORMAL. We are very concerned that the Barnstable Conservation Commission continues to hold “ZOOM only” meetings - WITHOUT any option for us to attend IN PERSON. Especially for important matters such as the discussion of fragile and precious wetlands that could be seriously compromised and conceivably damaged by the Park City Wind project, which many Barnstable citizens vigorously oppose. There is a need for a GIVE and TAKE discussion and this is nearly impossible with Zoom, as our mikes are muted. It is a form of silencing our citizen voices, is it not? It would be GREAT if the meeting would allow BOTH zoom and in person. Kindly provide the Conservation Commission’s rationale and any official reasons WHY it is still only on Zoom in July 2023, over a year after the pandemic has been officially over. We attach a screenshot from the Nantucket public meeting held today, courtesy of Ms. Mary Chalke of the Save Right Whales Coalition. This was an IN PERSON meeting today: Thank you for your help. Wishing you a lovely afternoon. Maria and Greg Gerdy Begin forwarded message: From: "Karle, Darcy" <Darcy.Karle@town.barnstable.ma.us> Date: July 10, 2023 at 5:13:23 PM EDT To: Greg Gerdy <greg.gerdy@yahoo.com> Cc: Bob Schulte <bob.a.schulte@gmail.com> Subject: RE: Please Help - Scheduled Park City Wind Meeting Before the Barnstable Conservation Commission - 7/11 @ 6:30 pm Good aernoon, This maer will be connued to August 8th as we received a connuance request from the applicant. It will sll be a remote hearing via zoom. Darcy Karle, Conservaon Administrator Planning & Development/Conservaon Program Town of Barnstable l 230 South Street l Hyannis, MA 02601 Darcy.Karle@town.barnstable.ma.us P 508-862-4041 From: Greg Gerdy [mailto:greg.gerdy@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 3:03 PM To: Karle, Darcy Cc: Bob Schulte; Greg Gerdy Subject: Please Help - Scheduled Park City Wind Meeting Before the Barnstable Conservation Commission - 7/11 @ 6:30 pm To: Ms. Darcy Karle Barnstable Conservation Commission Fr: Maria and Greg Gerdy 7 July 2023 We hope this finds you well. We received an email today from Mr. Bob Schulte re: Park City Wind Zoom meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 11 July 2023. Given the very short notice from Avangrid to the public about the zoom meeting, is it possible to move the 11 July date to a later one please? Likewise, only a very few people in town (14 people) were informed by Avangrid, which is quite concerning, as you can understand. We the people would like to be heard and more people would be able to participate if given a longer lead time for the meeting. Please see Mr. Schulte’s email below for details. Your kind help with rescheduling this meeting would be much appreciated. Thank you. CAUTION:This email originated from outside of the Town of Barnstable! Do not click links, open aachments or reply, unless you recognize the sender's email address and know the content is safe! CAUTION:This email originated from outside of the Town of Barnstable! Do not click links, open aachments or reply, unless you recognize the sender's email address and know the content is safe!