In response to the Globe South’s question “Should the Baker administration support wind energy?” Joanne Levesque argued that

Our state’s energy policy should never sacrifice the rights of private property owners or promote public harm. Current support for wind power projects is premised on allowing harm to our neighbors. Violation of the law is not how a civil society should adopt solutions to climate-change challenges.

A resident of Duxbury, Levesque serves on the Wind Advisory Committee. She urged the Baker administration to

immediately do what 44 Massachusetts cities and towns have done in the past 10 years — that is to deny the construction of new land-based wind projects. The new administration should also do what Falmouth has been forced to do by a Barnstable Superior Court judge who ruled on the evidence: reduce the operational hours of existing turbines to protect their neighbors from further harm.

The pro/con…