NIMBY -- April 8, 2015

Best quote in the linked article below:

“I was generally in favor of wind power and probably still am,” Gladstone resident Marv Krank said during the meeting. “But not at this location.” 

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

A group of concerned residents packed into a Stark County Courthouse conference room Tuesday morning in Dickinson to express their disapproval of a proposed wind energy project. The emotional reactions from residents were a result of a proposal from Dickinson Wind LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC of Connecticut, which has requested the Stark County Commission to approve 87 wind turbines that would stretch across Interstate 94 from Gladstone to Richardton.

Krank said he has spent weeks traveling to various wind towers throughout the state. He believes the noise levels towers generate have become a major concern.

“Noise is definitely a problem,” he said. “You can hear the whooshing sound of propellers from several thousand feet away.”

But even more troubling than noise levels, Krank said, was the decrease in land value as a result of wind farms.

“I have been to some of these sites,” he said. “There is zero development in these places. Windows are boarded up at some farms. Community growth has stopped. It looks to me like people do not want to live under the shadow of a wind farm.”

Like Krank, I like wind power but I like wind power as long as it's not in the United States. Maybe Hawaii is okay. Next to the proposed Obama Presidential Library.

Regular readers know that Connecticut is the only state in the union that has banned commercial wind farms and that's why they are coming to states like North Dakota.