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Anonymous

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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).....


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
 

Big Muddy rancher

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They have quite a few wind turbines in south western sask. They weren't turning on Thursday or monday when we went by. I don't know why but I wonder about them myself. You would think they would be great but they are still only a small portion of our needs and need almost 100% back up . Probably be better to spend the money on safe nuclear power.
 

IL Rancher

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Gosh, they are going up like crazy around here.. Seems like every day a new one is getting propsed.. Between Ethanol plants and Wind turbines and Soy Diesel we seem to be starting a new project every month.. Don't know how tall the towers are around here, I know someone who works at one of them so I could ask him, but the blades are huge.. They caravaned down the highway with some the other day and it was amazing.. You can se them from MILES away, makes for an interesting skyline...
 

Silver

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There's an outfit wanting to put a windfarm on our grazing, and some towers on our private land as well. I say fly at'er. All I want if use of the electricity and for my cows not to be fenced away from them. I sure don't mind doing my part to help wean us off $80.00 oil.
 
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Anonymous

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One of the things that the article has wrong is that the Bitter Creek area is a wilderness area....It is not- it is still just a STUDY area- as they never got wilderness status for it...The plan was to make it wilderness, then eventually tie it into Canada's Grasslands Park for a big wildlife and BUFFALO preserve....

But when they were studying it, many locals showed them all the roads and trails--old homesteads of people that had lived there 90 years ago but got ran out by the depression, so it didn't really qualify as pristine for wilderness....

The other comical thing is that back then their were a plenty of windmills going in that country and it didn't run out no wildlife or kill any birds... :roll:

I never heard of any of these groups fighting this- and I understand they are all from out of the area...But I did hear that one corporate investor- that has put millions $ (25-30 now) into buying up local ranchs (a couple in that area) was one of the behind the scenes objectors to this--which just confirms my belief that someday they will sell out everything to some greeny weenie group.....
The only way this would have affected me is that the lines from the windmills to the transformer station would have came down past a 1/2 section I own...I thought maybe it would get me a better road into it...
 
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