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Wind farms seem to be steadily encroaching into our once beautiful countryside.

If developers have their way, north Bureau County will soon be enveloped in a forest of hundreds of 400-foot tall turbines.

I’ve spoken against the turbines many times, usually on deaf ears. Money has been the driving force behind this development. As we go forward, I’d like to ask again for the statistics.

These questions have never been answered adequately: What kind of real income is the county expecting; how will the county honestly benefit? Where are the actual dollar figures? As these turbines will forever change completely our local environment, how exactly will the people of north Bureau County benefit from these turbines? Now we see the character of these developers wherein we have to sue them to make good on their agreements.

As time progresses and we see issues with the turbines, will the developers only respond if they are sued? Where does this leave the landowner with a single turbine, will he have to sue to correct problems? Twenty years is the life of a wind farm. Are we looking at a monstrous junk yard here as they are abandoned by the international conglomerates that own them? Do we have to sue them to take them down? And who will you sue? I believe our collective greed has truly unleashed a monster. A Web site I recommend viewing for current information is www.windaction.org.

Rodger Schwind

Walnut

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