Comments by PrairieLover
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Posted on February 26 at 4 p.m.
Furgus Falls is ahead of the pack. There are so many questions coming up about wind turbines and wind farms that any community that just leaps head first into it is not protecting the health and safety of its residents and certainly not doing much for the environment. Please visit betterplan.squarespace.com and download the supporting documents for the Union Township wind ordinance. No matter what the wind developers tell you, living 1000 feet from a 40 story tall machine with a spinning blade span wider than a 747 is going to have an impact on your life. Visit windaction.org or nationalwindwatch.org and educate yourself. I wish it were the green Santa every one believes it is, but the truth is it's solving one environmental problem with another. Did you know that if there is a massive power failure the turbines stop turning? Did you know they rely on coal and gas powered electrical plants to even function? Did you know that at best they are only 30% efficient?
Posted on February 22 at 8:50 p.m.
Furgus Falls is ahead of the pack. There are so many questions coming up about wind turbines and wind farms that any community that just leaps head first into it is not protecting the health and safety of its residents and certainly not doing much for the environment. Please visit betterplan.squarespace.com and download the supporting documents for the Union Township wind ordinance. No matter what the wind developers tell you, living 1000 feet from a 40 story tall machine with a spinning blade span wider than a 747 is going to have an impact on your life. Visit windaction.org or nationalwindwatch.org and educate yourself. I wish it were the green Santa every one believes it is, but the truth is it's solving one environmental problem with another. Did you know that if there is a massive power failure the turbines stop turning? Did you know they rely on coal and gas powered electrical plants to even function? Did you know that at best they are only 30% efficient?
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Posted on April 29 at 8:21 a.m.
Fergus Falls is ahead of the pack on this one. It turns out that there are real problems with living too close to 40 story industrial wind turbines, though developers don't want you to know this. There is a Wisconsin website that has a diary kept by a family since the turbines went on line there in the first week of March. You can read it here betterplan.squarespace.com.
If the turbines are far enough away from people's homes then problems are eliminated. But developers can't make money that way because they need to put them where there are transmission lines and that's also where people tend to live. They want to cram them in to make it profitable. This industry is so new that most people don't know yet about the problems. Fergus Falls has an idea about it, and I think residents should feel thankful. In a lot of places they are just handing out permits with no questions.
On Commission considers turbine policy