What Ontario has actually done is commit a lot of your money to create wind energy that we don't need. ...Wind is so unimportant that you could pull the plug on every wind farm in Ontario and it wouldn't make a bit of difference. On a good day, wind produces about one per cent of Ontario's power. When all the McGuinty wind turbines are finally installed, the number might get to five per cent.

Two more associated towers are to be located in Concord, the next township to the east. My town is now among the unfortunate that have been infected with the virus of wind-energy sprawl. Industry activity, lately, has been substantial in our area and our town lies within the new expedited permitting zone. It was bound to happen.

Developers of mountaintop industrial wind are touting many promised benefits - from reduced greenhouse gas emissions and decreased dependence on fossil fuels to a huge economic renaissance. These are all false promises spun to enhance public acceptance.

There are lots of reasons to oppose this project [Cape Wind], including the increased costs to ratepayers in the years ahead. But yesterday's SJC decision points to yet another. In its efforts to ensure the future of this particular project the Patrick administration has run roughshod over the centuries-old public trust doctrine.

Hoosiers, get used to the sight. Indiana is in the middle of a wind power boom encouraged by liberal taxpayer subsidies at the federal level and plentiful wind resources and easy access to transmission lines at the state level.

Brimfield needs time to determine if it can live with the project. Placing eight to 10 wind-turbine towers that may be almost 400-feet high is a pretty tall order. The project would definitely affect the town's rural character, so officials and residents should demand that First Wind provide as much information as possible.

If wind can compete absent subsidies, mandates, or tax credits, then Americans will benefit from a more robust, competitive energy market. To suggest that windmills are the answer to our economic and climate problems is nothing but blowing smoke to the American people.

Horizon's representative, Robert Yehl, claimed the company would improve local roads before, during and after construction of the wind farm. ...Baloney! Roads were in terrible shape during construction of the original wind farm. And they are in worse shape now than before.

Cape Wind blew away National Grid's 1.2 million Massachusetts customers when they learned that their power from Cape Wind will cost at least 25 percent more than National Grid's conventional electricity. Even though the wind power will be just 3.5 percent of the utility's total load and the impact on an average monthly bill will be about $1.24, consumers are justified in asking if the state is right to require utilities to bring on costly renewable power like Cape Wind's.

Are Delawareans foolish enough to elect John Carney to Congress knowing he supports a financial "loser" like wind turbine manufacturing and use in Delaware?

The cost of wind turbines has been shifted onto neighbors who never imagined these kinds of burdens when the benefits of wind energy were sold to the public. It is wrong and it is unfair to impose both the noise and the uncertainty of resolution - or if there will ever be resolution - on a few nearby homeowners.

When the large property owners were approached over five years ago to sign leases to have 400-foot-tall industrial wind turbines on their property, they were never told of all the negative stuff and how they would be affecting their neighbors. We know so much more now.

Rather than inspire a new industry willing to take a risk and invest private capital in hopes of a return, the green-energy incentives simply perpetuate a dependence upon government largess. In an effort to put a thumb on the scales and pick their own winners and losers, the Legislature's proposals more closely resemble some fly-by-night, get-rich scheme than a thoughtful economic development plan.

Is wind power a viable alternative to low-cost fossil fuels? Consider this: relying on windmills to reduce greenhouse gas emissions not only is expensive and ironically harmful to the environment, it won't accomplish its main goal. ...The inefficient "cycling" of generators made to run continuously creates more emissions than running constantly.

The project, pegged at $2.5 billion in construction costs alone, threatens to burden the electric utilities with higher costs and their customers with higher bills. Once the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approves that contract, other utilities will, we can assume, line up. Only faintly visible are the machinations that our elected officials had to go through in order to pull the deal together.

What fool would undertake a $9.5 mil wind generator project having no previous experience with such things, with unproven and unknown revenue returns, all the while subjecting the town to the very certain liability of $1 mil a year in P&I costs without planning to offset that liability with adequate additional reserves?

But the costs to consumers - reflected in the 18.7 cents per kilowatt hour that National Grid will pay - are only the frosting on Cape Wind's rich cake. Most of the Cape Wind dough would come from federal and Massachusetts taxpayers.

The planned massive expansion of wind power is at the expense of both environment and the economy. The question should therefore be decided at the ballot box, writes Jonny Fagerström (Svenskt Landskapsskydd (Swedish Landscape Protection Association), and economist Marian Radetzki.

The Greece and Webster Town Boards have taken official positions against offshore wind power projects near their communities. But will they really influence the New York Power Authority? ...Since I couldn't get a more specific answer, let me offer my interpretation.

We can transform the electric power grid system to accommodate wind power, but at great cost and huge risk to reliability. But the real question is why are we mandating a controversial energy source with no proven efficacy when it will not become viable until we have economically viable electricity sequestration?