It behooves environmentalist to identify a new location for the WINDMAR Project
The environmentalists complains have been made loud and clear. Miguel Canals, testifying before the Junta de Calidad Ambiental (JCA), noted that the project would degrade the biodiversity of the Dry Forest in Guánica. The Ornithological Society of Puerto Rico (SOPI) has observed its negative impact on the bird species of the region, principally the Guabairo. The Speleological Federation of Puerto Rico (FEPUR) have complained that various caves will be wiped out. The Sierra Club of Puerto Rico (SCPR) has united in the general opposition to the project. As a scientist recently put it, WINDMAR "is a good idea in a bad place."
Nonetheless, it should be noted that it behooves the project's opponents to indicate where such a project could be located.
After all, the island of Puerto Rico is not prepared for the eventuality of a drastic increase in the price of petroleum. The current presumption is an implicit projection of the status quo onto the indefinite future, when renown economists as Jose I. Alameda have demonstrated the opposite. The price of gasoline will increase, and, do you know what the consequences will be? A tax on all the economic activity of the island greater than any IVU (local sales tax) that was debated for months by our government. The following will drastically increase in price: food, going on a trip around the island, filling up the tank of gas, buying that special gift for a loved one, etc etc. Has everyone already forgotten the huge lines that formed at gas stations during the 1970s?
It is not that the WINDMAR project is a bad one, but rather that we need many more of these to help salvage the economic future of our island. It simply impinges upon all the project's opponents to identify exactly where the WINDMAR project could be located, as well as identifying ALL the available sites for these types of projects.
Otherwise, we will ALL end up loosing.