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 […]
One County Bans Wind Turbines Based on Population Density
The Marshall County Board of Commissioners in Indiana, voted unanimously to ban commercial wind farms in their county. They recognized the population density was too high for the project to make any sense. Individuals in the county can still build wind turbines on their own property for their own use as long as the height […]
Are There Too Many People in North East for a Utility Scale Wind Turbine Installation?
Wind turbines, if they are to be built anywhere, should be placed in very sparsely populated areas because many of the most disruptive effects of having turbines nearby can be reduced simply by placing them far away from people, but developers are trying to move into areas, like North East township, where residential communities are […]