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Throwing caution to the wind farms
The benefits of wind farms are dubious and undemonstrated. Going headlong into the business of wind farming, either for the revenue or the energy, is less than responsible.
December 13, 2003
in Winfield (Kansas) Courier
The menacing shapes of nearly 300-foot windmills may rise on the Flint Hills in Butler County.
The Butler County Commission has ratified its earlier decision, delayed in court, in favor of an application for an 8,000-acre wind farm south of Beaumont. This is a premature step.
The benefits of wind farms are dubious and undemonstrated. Going headlong into the business of wind farming, either for the revenue or the energy, is less than responsible.
Once up, wind farms will tower over the highest ridges of the Flint Hills. The hills will be left less pristine than they are now. Oil... [continue via Web link]
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