[digger48]

property owners living next door to these monsters are finding that no one wants to buy their properties,

Local non-leaseholders here in central IN have seen a 25-40% decrease in property value after the 500' tall monuments to Gaia went in.

A second farm planned for our area died when the Zoning Board forced the foreign owned developer to provide a Property Value Guarantee. They contended there were never, ever any instances of property value loss anywhere Industrial Wind turbines were sited, but they sure packed up when they were told to stand by that claim.

[hecticskeptic]

A second farm planned for our area died when the Zoning Board forced the foreign owned developer to provide a Property Value Guarantee. ,/p>

One of the first steps the Ontario government took when they pursued this path of wind power was they took the power away from the municipalities to say no to IWTs...sad to say but there is no zoning issue on the table to deal with. Literally, all person and municipal rights have been stripped away.