Granholm touts green energy while others are skeptical
"Costs eventually show up on the monthly bills of residents and businesses.
And in Michigan, some opposition stems from a philosophical dislike of government mandates. The 52-megawatt farm visited by Granholm exists without an RPS, for instance, and developers already have proposed an additional 3,000 megawatts of wind power in 16 Michigan counties.
Others question the job-creation potential since wind farms don't employ many workers after construction is complete. Patterson agrees more jobs will be created if Michigan taps into the potential of making turbine blades, 'but the question is at what cost to the rest of the state?"...
"Costs eventually show up on the monthly bills of residents and businesses.
And in Michigan, some opposition stems from a philosophical dislike of government mandates. The 52-megawatt farm visited by Granholm exists without an RPS, for instance, and developers already have proposed an additional 3,000 megawatts of wind power in 16 Michigan counties.
Others question the job-creation potential since wind farms don't employ many workers after construction is complete. Patterson agrees more jobs will be created if Michigan taps into the potential of making turbine blades, 'but the question is at what cost to the rest of the state?"...
And in Michigan, some opposition stems from a philosophical dislike of government mandates."
Well yeah.... didn't our forefathers have a "tea-party" about that mandate thing?
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