Scare stories on wind turbines not backed by facts

[jpak]

http://www.tomahjournal.com/articles/2006/03/20/opinion/03blackmorecolumn.txt

If I was a resident of Monroe County or a County Board member who wanted to make an intelligent and informed decision about the pending wind energy amendment to the county zoning code, I think I would be very confused.  

Advertise Info. Directory On one hand you have a small group of area residents who are predicting calamities of all sorts of the county allows wind development to occur anywhere in the county.

On the other hand, you have a large group of supportive landowners and information that indicates that wind energy benefits the family farm by increasing and diversifying net farm income, produces $6,000 per year in tax revenue to the township and county, and produces clean, safe, renewable energy.
I have been involved in this debate since Invenergy sent me to the Summit Ridge area to acquire land for a wind energy project in Dec. of 2004.

Based on the years that I have worked on and around wind farms, the dire predictions of those opposed to both the amendment and proposed project did not ring true to me.

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[phantom power]

1. Funny, what people will and won't believe.

Try to tell them that global warming is a threat, and you get called a tree-hugging moonbat. But these same people will believe the world as we know it will end if we build some wind turbines.