They snuck in a (foreign owned) farm in my county me a few years back. We successfully beat the next (foreign owned)and any further farms with a bunch of hard work and a great grassroots organization. Convinced the zoning board at a raucous, 8 hour meeting to force them to put up a Property Value Guarantee and change the setback from homes to 2500' instead of 1250'.
They kept making the claim that no non-leaseholder neighbor ever loses value on their homes, but they refused to back that up with their own money.
We sent almost all of the County officials responsible packing at the next Primary. The last ones are gone this year.
The whole damn deal destroyed local family relationships and generations old friendships.. Make no mistake about it, Industrial Wind Turbine Farms in your community WILL do just that.
These people had built their retirement home on land they've owned for decades. But their neighbor did this to them. Their son had a new house next door.
They both sold out and moved away.
What they do to the value of next door real estate is unconscionable. But it gets even worse... whatever power they generate is basically lost somewhere else. It’s the big picture of the complete grid that one has to looking at... not just what the occasional kWh are that gets supplied by these things. An electrical grid that is driven by supply as opposed to demand can never be controlled properly and the issue even extends to reliability, maintenance and longevity concerns for other equipment on the grid that now has to cycle like yoyos to accommodate the sporadic nature of wind and solar. I could write a book on this very issue.... and yes, I am a professional engineer and yes I have a connection to the electrical supply industry.
