This is but one thing out of a gazillion that are wrong with IWTs. They are an unmitigated disaster and if you are fortunate enough to live in an area that doesn’t yet have them, either count yourself lucky or support what you have to keep them out.
There is a wind turbine located just north of the Grand Traverse Resort, north of Traverse City, Mi., and, I swear I’ve never seen those blades rotating.
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.
