Sample Letter for Your Representatives

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[Your address]

[Today's date]

[Recipient's address]

I am writing to express extreme concern with the industrial wind turbine development planned for Greenbrier County (PSC case # 05-1590-E-CN) . [For more prominence stress a specific point of concern, such as noise, vibration, decreased property values, habitat destruction, erosion of the mountaintop, loss of tourism revenue, etc.]

Wind turbine projects destroy important wildlife and habitat (including endangered species), kill huge volumes of birds and bats, destroy highly prized scenic vistas, and impact local tourism-dependent economies along with lowering property values. [Consider copying and pasting into your letter material to be found on various web sites that relates to a concern of yours.]

With renewal of the federal tax credit for wind power projects, I am certain that industrial wind developers will move quickly on construction. To protect public interest and adequately address important and as yet unstudied impacts, I request that you do what you can to delay implementation of new projects in West Virginia until the Federal GAO study is completed and responsible site provisions can be established.

Thank you for your efforts to protect our beautiful mountains and local economies from destructive wind power projects. Our mountain tops are too valuable to us as is to be sacrificed for dubious energy benefit and incredible corporate profit.

Please also keep me informed of your thinking on this topic and what suggestions you may have for keeping Greenbrier County free from these property-value-damaging industrial wind turbines.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

[signature]

 

Governor:
Gov. Joe Manchin III 1900 Kanawha Boulevard, E., Charleston, WV 25305	Governor@WVGov.org 1-888-438-2731
State Delegates:
Thomas W. Campbell Room 434-M Building 1 1900 Kanawha BLVD East Charleston, WV 25305	wvdeltc@mail.wvnet.edu 304-645-5547 304-340-3265
Ray Canterbury Room 223-E, Bldg. 1 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E. Charleston, WV 25305	rcanter1@mail.wvnet.edu (304) 340-3131
State Senators:
Jesse O. Guills Room 200W, Bldg. 1 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E. Charleston, WV 25305	jguills@mail.wvnet.edu (304) 645-3313 (304) 357-7959
Don Caruth Room 203W, Bldg. 1 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E. Charleston, WV 25305	dcaruth@mail.wvnet.edu (304) 325-9177 (304)357-7854
US Senators:
John D. Rockefeller SH-531 HSOB U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510	(202) 224-6472 senator@rockefeller.senate.gov http://rockefeller.senate.gov/
Robert C. Byrd SH-311 Hart SHOB U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510	(202) 224-3954 byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html
US Representative:
Nick Rahall 2307 Rayburn Building U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515	202-225-3452 www.rahall.house.gov/feedback.cfm? campaign=Rahall&type=Contact