Hatcher backs wind power for Gary

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Hatcher backs wind power for Gary
Post Tribune Jon Seidel

GARY â€” Ragen Hatcher says sheâ€™d tap the power of wind to create new revenue for Gary.

Itâ€™s part of a three-point plan she offered Monday to find new money for the cash-strapped city she hopes to lead.

â€œGary will once again become known for its resources and opportunities as it was decades ago,â€ Hatcher said at her campaign headquarters in the 2100 block of Grant Street.

The at-large City Council member and mayoral candidate said the initial cost of building 15 wind turbines could be covered by a federal tax credit. She said the turbines could be built in six months on city-owned lakefront property in the U.S. Steel footprint, and Gary could sell the energy they produce to Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

She said it could kick-start a new green industry in the Steel City.

â€œGary needs a facelift, it needs to be reinvented,â€ Hatcher said. â€œWe need a new industry in our community. Right now our big industry has been steel. Weâ€™ve been steel since 1906. We have got to change it.â€

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â€œEvery dollar of taxes that goes out of this community is a dollar that we lose,â€ Hatcher said.

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/4661813-53 ... -gary.html

does she have any ideas about reviving Gary that DO NOT involve federal grants/tax money/subsidies/etc?

â€œEvery dollar of taxes that goes out of this community is a dollar that we lose,â€ Hatcher said.

suzyq · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:00 pm **Posts:** 993

Moby Grape wrote:

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Hatcher backs wind power for Gary
Post Tribune Jon Seidel

GARY â€” Ragen Hatcher says sheâ€™d tap the power of wind to create new revenue for Gary.

Itâ€™s part of a three-point plan she offered Monday to find new money for the cash-strapped city she hopes to lead.

â€œGary will once again become known for its resources and opportunities as it was decades ago,â€ Hatcher said at her campaign headquarters in the 2100 block of Grant Street.

The at-large City Council member and mayoral candidate said the initial cost of building 15 wind turbines could be covered by a federal tax credit. She said the turbines could be built in six months on city-owned lakefront property in the U.S. Steel footprint, and Gary could sell the energy they produce to Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

She said it could kick-start a new green industry in the Steel City.

â€œGary needs a facelift, it needs to be reinvented,â€ Hatcher said. â€œWe need a new industry in our community. Right now our big industry has been steel. Weâ€™ve been steel since 1906. We have got to change it.â€

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â€œEvery dollar of taxes that goes out of this community is a dollar that we lose,â€ Hatcher said.

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/4661813-53 ... -gary.html

does she have any ideas about reviving Gary that DO NOT involve federal grants/tax money/subsidies/etc?

â€œEvery dollar of taxes that goes out of this community is a dollar that we lose,â€ Hatcher said.

Right now our big industry has been steelin. Weâ€™ve been steelin since 1906. We have got to change it.â€

Start steelin turbine blades !!!!

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:09 pm

Board set to rule on Gary request for tax help

Four Gary taxing districts will learn April 13 whether they will be permitted to charge rates in excess of the state's property tax caps for a third straight year.

The Indiana Distressed Unit Appeals Board is scheduled to announce its decision on Gary's request for property tax cap relief at 9 a.m. region time in the 9th floor conference room at 1 N. Capitol St., Indianapolis.

Under the caps, Gary's 2011 city revenue should be $30 million. In January, city officials asked the board to approve a $41.1 million levy this year while the city works to bring spending under the $30 million cap by 2012.

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:19 pm

Ragen Hatcher wrote:

â€œGary will once again become known for its resources and opportunities as it was decades ago,â€

Do you mean just before your father was elected Mayor?

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

I doubt all them fans will blow the stench out of Gary. And Federal dollars won't refresh city government. What needs to be addressed is why no one wants to be caught dead in Gary and what it can do to live within the means of the revenues generated.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Regionite wrote:

and what it can do to live within the means of the revenues generated.

LOL!!!!!!

you're joking right?..I mean c'mon...Rudy just had to give up his ''on call photographer'' for cripes sake...

Just how much more do you expect he can take?

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Maybe Ms. Hatcher needs to read this before even more taxpayer money is squandered in the name of revitalizing Gary Indiana..

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Official: wind farms are totally useless
The Telegraph

Before I take my break, I cannot resist drawing your attention to a new report on wind farms - perhaps the most damning I have ever read.

What makes it even more significant is that it has been sponsored by an environmental charity. Normally the people most busily pushing these bird-chomping, bat-crunching, taxpayer-fleecing monstrosities on our magnificent landscape are those who claim, ludicrously, to be â€œgreen.â€

Thank you, John Muir Trust, for reminding as that being â€œgreenâ€ doesnâ€™t necessarily have to include economically suicidal schemes to destroy perhaps our greatest national asset: the British countryside.

Hereâ€™s its summary:

PRINCIPAL FINDINGS in respect of analysis of electricity generation from all the U.K. windfarms which are metered by National Grid, November 2008 to December 2010. The following five statements are common assertions made by both the wind industry and Government representatives and agencies. This Report examines those assertions.

â€œWind turbines will generate on average 30% of their rated capacity over a year.â€

â€œThe wind is always blowing somewhere.â€

â€œPeriods of widespread low wind are infrequent.â€

â€œThe probability of very low wind output coinciding with peak electricity demand is slight.â€

â€œPumped storage hydro can fill the generation gap during prolonged low wind periods.â€

This analysis uses publicly available data for a 26 month period between November 2008 and December 2010 and the facts in respect of the above assertions are:

Average output from wind was 27.18% of metered capacity in 2009, 21.14% in 2010, and 24.08% between November 2008 and December 2010 inclusive.

There were 124 separate occasions from November 2008 till December 2010 when total generation from the windfarms metered by National Grid was less than 20MW. (Average capacity over the period was in excess of 1600MW).

The average frequency and duration of a low wind event of 20MW or less between November 2008 and December 2010 was once every 6.38 days for a period of 4.93 hours.

At each of the four highest peak demands of 2010 wind output was low being respectively 4.72%, 5.51%, 2.59% and 2.51% of capacity at peak demand.

The entire pumped storage hydro capacity in the UK can provide up to 2788MW for only 5 hours then it drops to 1060MW, and finally runs out of water after 22 hours.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/james ... y-useless/

newsflashkid · **Joined:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:20 pm **Posts:** 1011

I wonder if this young lady will ever admit this statement. "I want to bring back Gary to what it was in the past
before my father wrecked the place"

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

Jesse Jackson will never let that happen. Then there would be no excuse to suck in all those Federal tax dollars they feel an entitlement to.

Besides they are too racist to let whities move in.

newsflashkid · **Joined:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:20 pm **Posts:** 1011

Just to fill you in, there has been a rift between Hatcher and Jessee Jackson Sr. for years. In public they greet each other as great friends, but behind the scene they don't get along. Case in point> Years ago Jackson was leading a bus tour to Washington for one of his marches. He didn't want Hatcher to show up. So Jackson said they wouldn't be stopping in Gary to pick up anyone, once they pulled out of Chicago. Hatcher drove to Chicago to get on board anyway. Jackson was furious. I have other incidents that showed there lack of love for each other. Jessee doesn't want to share those cameras with anyone if possible. Read the book "Shakedown" you will learn a lot of behind scenes never devulged. My knowing about the bus trip was my personal knowledge, not from any book.

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