Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Huron County Pushes Stop Button on Wind Development

Huron County Pushes Stop Button on Wind Development [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: "Complaints that living near industrial wind turbines causes adverse health impacts have been voiced worldwide. 
They include symptoms such as headaches and dizziness allegedly caused by exposure to low-frequency noise, infrasound emitted by the turbines and visual problems allegedly caused by the flicker effect of the turbine blades.
“This is a big deal,” said Kevon Martis director of the Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition (IICC), a nonprofit organization that is concerned about the construction of wind turbines in the region.
“The moratorium in Huron County is a significant blow to Michigan wind development.
Wind developers will no doubt continue to whistle past the tombstones and claim that most people do not mind having entire townships and counties turned into 50-story-tall power plants.
But as wind development has increased in Michigan, people's voices of protest have also increased. And most communities hosting wind turbines are now using every legal and regulatory means at their disposal to stop the bleeding.”
Minnesota-based Geronimo Wind Energy, arguably the wind developer most immediately affected by the moratorium, did not respond to a phone call offering the opportunity to comment."

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