I live in a rural town in New Hampshire that was targeted by Iberdrola for an industrial-scale wind project on our ridgelines.
Residents of my community learned that we could not trust a word from Iberdrola. Its representatives gave us the same speech: “If the town votes against the project, we will leave.”
Well, we had a 60-percent - yes, 60 percent! - voter turnout that year, and there was overwhelming opposition to the project - at least 3-to-1 opposed.
Iberdrola's interpretation of our vote of opposition was that since 100 percent of people did not vote, then there was support for the project! They claimed 40 percent of voters supported the project because they did not vote in opposition - but they didn't vote at all!...