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American Lung Association's misguided support for wind energy
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If you lease, chances are one or more of your neighbors is going to have to deal with eminent domain. Now these are private, wind development companies, however, once they sell that power to a power purchaser, they can go to the energy commission and as in Butler County, in two weeks and a little bit of paper work...they had the power of eminent domain to go across adjacent landowners' property with power lines, with trenches, with no public hearing
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Rose Bacon in 'Rancher describes experiences associated with wind farms', in the Sentinel (KS) 11/1/05
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