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If they allow every enviromentalist and Teddy Kennedy to object to having a windfarm because of asthetic values- they are never going to get a renewable energy!!!!
This was planned for a few miles northwest of us--You couldn't have put this in a more remote area of the world- next to the badlands-- no one lives in miles--just rattlesnakes, deer, antelope, coyotes, birds and an occasional wolf (which the government refuses to recognize).....
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/09/24/news/state/30-windfarm.txt
This was planned for a few miles northwest of us--You couldn't have put this in a more remote area of the world- next to the badlands-- no one lives in miles--just rattlesnakes, deer, antelope, coyotes, birds and an occasional wolf (which the government refuses to recognize).....
Environmentalists blamed for collapse of proposed Glasgow wind farm
By The Associated Press
The strong winds that blow across the Northern Plains have been chased over the past two years by a spate of politicians and entrepreneurs eager to promote wind as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Yet political will, tax breaks and a seemingly endless supply have not been enough to guarantee developers can turn wind into watts. As a result, one of the largest wind farms ever proposed in the United States has been shelved after the Montana project ran into opposition from an unlikely source - environmentalists.
"Montana has a great wind resource, one of the best in the country. And the governor of Montana is an outspoken proponent of wind," said Gary Evans, chief executive of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. "But you can talk about this all you want. Business goes the place it's easiest to do business."
GreenHunter Energy's proposed 500-megawatt wind farm north of Glasgow, near the Canadian border, stirred a backlash this year from environmentalists worried the 400-foot turbines would loom over an adjacent wilderness area. Unwilling to scale back, the Texas company will take the $200 million to $500 million it planned to invest in the 20,000-acre Valley County site and sink it into another wind project, most likely in California.
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/09/24/news/state/30-windfarm.txt