Deepwater decision leads to conflicting opinions about renewable energy

To the Editor:
The country has evidently arrived at a point in its legal culture where no negative consequences seem to exist for making false or misleading claims to sell wind energy – the stuff dreams are made of (“PUC approves Deepwater Wind-National Grid power deal, but appeals expected,” Aug. 11, 2010, PBN.com).
But industrial wind is a scheme of enormous consequence. And people who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their government.
Let’s remember any form of government that becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.
It’s a case of bait and switch. Last one out of Rhode Island, shut off the lights.
Frank Haggerty
Mattapoisett