Posted on 09/25/2013 3:40:12 PM PDT by matt04
The Connecticut legislature extended the two-year ban on wind turbines, striking down regulations that would have allowed for the construction of the renewable energy projects.
The legislature's Regulation Review Committee on Tuesday voted 10-3 to reject the proposed wind regulations by the Connecticut Siting Council. The members were concerned about who would dismantle the structures if the owners ever went out of business. This is the third rejections of the proposed regulations since the state placed a moratorium on wind turbine development in 2011. It also marks the first rejection since June, when the legislature passed a comprehensive energy strategy designed to make it easier for the wind regulations to be approved by taking out certain provisions related to size of the turbines.
The ban stems from a fight between residents of Colebrook and Prospect and West Hartford renewable energy developer BNE Energy. The Colebrook turbines were approved by the Siting Council, but the fallout from the fight led the legislature to pass the moratorium until wind-specific regulations were approved.
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It’s funny, Indiana was rated “least green” state but we got those d@mn things all over the prairie.
You should see all of them around the Lubbock, Texas, area. Very eerie at night. Talk about surprised - didn’t even know we had any in Texas.
Is there anything those guys don’t ban?
Texas is #1 in wind power, by almost 3 to 1 over #2 California.
http://nhwindwatch.org/
Looks disgusting lining pristine mountains with these POS windmills...
They banned my AR
I’ve seem them, southern Illinois to and some otherwise beautiful hills in Wisconsin. What a blight. They seem to go on forever.
Connecticut is a liberal state.
Liberals are the ones pushing wind power.
So, it seems contradictory for Connecticut to ban wind turbines
ind turbines.his,
Wind turbines are fine, provided:
1. Someone else pays for them.
2. They’re located elsewhere.
Connecticut is also a picturesque state that generally does not want anything that could ruin the rural landscape. Dead songbirds kind of ruin it.
nimby.....Not In My Back Yard
So then, the liberals who run Connecticut aren’t liberal enough to tolerate wind turbines.
As regards dead birds, are we saying that there could be downsides to the liberal rush to get away from fossil fuels????? Maybe some of those downsides should cause liberals to think again about their global warming theology. Sounds like they are thinking about that in Connecticut.
I’m being a bit flippant here, but trying to make a point, which is that there are trade-offs to be made. Liberal theology would have us ban fossil fuels, for example. But here we see liberals aren’t all that eager to embrace wind. Which goes to show, that our future energy choices aren’t all that cut and dried as certain liberals would have us believe.
Having lived in Lubbock a long time ago for a while I know how hard the wind blows but I didn’t have a clue about all the turbines until we were driving through there two years ago at Christmas while coming back from Colorado.
Talk about surprised. Could have knocked me over with a feather. Guess I should go further west than the Hill Country and find out what’s going on in my own state.
Best thing leftist-progressive CT has done in a long time.
N.I.M.B.Y. !!!
“You should see all of them around the Lubbock, Texas, area. Very eerie at night. Talk about surprised - didn’t even know we had any in Texas.”
Go up highway 10 on the way to Odessa and the Permian basin and they are all over the place. Hundreds of them.
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