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Dear Editor:

Your April 25, 2007 editorial grossly misrepresents the Dowling Study regarding the offshore windmills. The report does not say that the project "will cost twice as much as reported." The Dowling Report states that Florida Light and Power (FLP) is grossly over-estimating the costs of the project, and therefore grossly overestimating the rates they will need to collect to pay for the project. To correct FLP's overestimation the Dowling Report suggests that our municipalities float low-interest rate municipal bonds to pay for the project themselves. As a municipally-financed project the rate structure would be reasonable and the municipalities would earn a reasonable rate of return.

I find it quite dubious that the same Town of Babylon that is opposing the offshore windmill project acted as lead agency for a global-warming-causing and pollutioncreating smoke-stack energy plant on the West Babylon- Wyandanch border. The T own did not say a word about the cost of that plant, its effect on our electrical rates or the far greater environmental damage caused by the plant. For that matter neither did the Amityville Record or the Babylon Beacon. What will you tell your children when they ask what you did to correct Global Warming?

Ian Wilder, North Babylon

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