Wind turbines bring the promise of money and that can cloud a person’s judgement. It certainly doesn’t have to, but sometimes, if a person isn’t careful, he’ll do things out of character, things he would otherwise not do, things he later regrets, simply because the thought of money was so overpowering. Wind developers know this […]
Wind Turbines Are Not Saving the World, They’re Just Chasing Government Money
It’s always nice to see someone putting up their hands and saying, ENOUGH, and that’s what appears to be happening over in the UK with new measures just enacted: The new measures ensure that local views will always take precedence over concerns about the global environment. David Cameron is understood to have intervened in a […]
North East Wind Turbines are All Cost and No Benefit
The other day we asked why anyone would want to build wind turbines in North East Township. No one stepped forward to answer and the question continues to puzzle us. The longer we ponder, the more it becomes clear, for the residents of North East Township the wind turbine project is all cost and no […]
Where is the North East Township Wind Turbine Zone?
If you’re unclear where wind turbines are planned, it most likely means no one has contacted you and asked you to sign a lease. Unless you have attended a township meeting or gone out of your way to obtain one of these maps (shown above), you probably think they’re planned for somewhere near Interstate 90. […]
How They Do It – an Inside Look at a Wind Developer’s Playbook
It doesn’t make sense. How do you go into to a tight knit rural community like North East and convince some of the landowners to erect gigantic, 500 foot, utility scale wind turbines on their land and make them believe it’s a good idea? On the face of it, it’s almost absurd. Yet, wind developers […]