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Tempers flare at Goodhue County wind meeting
As wind energy discussions within Goodhue County near a resolution this fall, Monday's six-hour meeting of the Planning Advisory Commission revealed tensions have already reached the boiling point.
Prior to the start of the regularly scheduled meeting, the PAC spent nearly two hours discussing the county's draft ordinance created by a three-person subcommittee during the past two months.
July 20, 2010
by Brett Boese
in The Post-Bulletin
RED WING - As wind energy discussions within Goodhue County near a resolution this fall, Monday's six-hour meeting of the Planning Advisory Commission revealed tensions have already reached the boiling point.
Prior to the start of the regularly scheduled meeting, the PAC spent nearly two hours discussing the county's draft ordinance created by a three-person subcommittee during the past two months. The room filled to capacity for the actual meeting, where Steve Groth, Paul Reese and Erin Logan filed a zoning text amendment related to wind turbines, creating a public hearing where residents were allowed to weigh in for the first... [continue via Web link]
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