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I'll be contacting Mr. Spring to let him know he's got my support and respect!
Translation: We don't have any rules governing a properly installed windmill driving a permitted well on private property. But, we need to figure out how to get into this citizen's life and pocket book.
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I'll be contacting Mr. Spring to let him know he's got my support and respect!
And people think they own their land...
They might have paid a hefty sum for it. But they are just renting it from the taxing authority.
John Brickey forgets for whom he works.
I trust Mr. Spring will educate him
I suspect the city is more than willing to take Mr. Spring up on his offer to die for his rights, if they can find some way to get away with it.
Mr. Brickey needs to Google up Carl Drega.
Giant wind-farms are, by and large, a boondoggle.
But just like FDR's Big Government "New Deal" REA caused the take-down of small-scale rural wind plants across the country, the modern Big Government plans for giant wind farms have started to take out the small-scale private generators.
That really p!sses me off.
(And, Oh, Yeah, I'd be totally on this guy's side even without the car collection and the doggy picture.)
I live in Longview, Washington.
I am single and live alone. I do three to four loads of clothes washing a week. I run the dishwasher every two days. I do not wash my car at my home nor do I water the plants in my garden as I live in a forest.
My water-sewer bill last month (it comes every two months) was for $196.00. My actual water base charge was $20.00 and the sewer base charge $58.00. The rest are: water consumption charge $15.00 and sewer consumption charge of $43.00. The rest is garbage pickup, storm water and utility taxes totaling $60.00.
I can understand someone putting a windmill up to power a pump for a well so they can water fruits and a garden.
As for the City of Longview, they pay their employees very well and the employees union? I believe it is SEIU.
Everyone on Free Republic should be familiar with that communist led union, correct?
Hope for the best for him, but expect the worst. The locals have the best lawyers the taxpayers can afford and all the time in the world to drag it out for years. Unless the guy is independently wealthy, they will out-money and out-lawyer him. My guess is that they will get an administrative ruling (like the EPA) and get an order to tear the windmill down before any court action can be taken.
The Peoples Republic of Washington can be an obnoxious place. Beautiful state that is going to tax itself out of existence.
I bought out on acreage and the closest neighbor is about 1000 feet downhill from us. Would like to have purchased a large and efficient outdoor wood boiler to heat the house/garage/barn with wood using a large water reservoir to hold the heat.
Washington is one of two states that have banned outdoor wood boilers. I understand banning them in areas with a certain population density because people in trailer parks might burn green wood and trash in them and smog up the neighborhood. I don’t support that. However, any particulate matter I generated would be minimal burning dry seasoned wood and it certainly would not impact my neighbors. Using their own calculations, the Garn wood boiler would emit half the allowable particulate over a 24 hour period. Instead of calculating it that way, they assume the boiler burns non-stop and they won’t make allowances for rural property. The model I wanted, a Garn, is only burned once a day for 120 minutes at most in the coldest part of winter. You only have to burn every few days in the summer to keep hot water. It’s much cleaner than a fireplace and way more efficient.
$10,000 fine if they catch you with one here. However, I can burn brush piles all day long on my property. Meanwhile, my neighbors a few miles away in Idaho can have all the wood boilers they want on their property. Go figure...
I could be saving a huge amount of money by using one of these things for my hot water and heat. It makes me wonder if they ban them in rural areas for tax reasons and why do they dictate so much of what we can do in Eastern Washington from the coast? Oregon is the same way.
I share this gentleman’s outrage and wish him well. I hope they vote out all the bums in city hall that support this harassment.
There is a big move to regulate the construction of windmills in WA counties because the left wants to put them everywhere, but near them or in their view, on AG land or recreational land in areas that they would like to be off limits to human incursion (Agenda 21).
Last week we drove through Southern California to Arizona, where all those wind farms were built years ago. The wind was blowing about 50mph, couldn’t open the car door at the rest stop because the wind was blowing so hard. The windmills weren’t running, not like you would expect with that wind. On the way back, they weren’t turning at all.
The Lummis are installing windmills all over the reservation. No one knows where the transmission lines will come from. Evidently, all the money in erecting windmills is in the federal subsidies, like solar, so the Lummis are lining up for all the federal money they can get there hands on, with no concern about the residents of the reservation.
“He said he built it to avoid paying Longview’s expensive water and sewer bills.”
Follow the money...
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