Noise, aesthetics, bird strikes -- these and many other arguments have been hurled against proponents of wind turbine projects. Each is valid but each can be addressed, and the impact minimized. Given Michigan's economically suicidal dependence on out-of-state coal and on nuclear power for most of its electricity generation, projects like this need public support. Or else prepare for a century of increasingly dire warming and climate upheaval.
The most ambitious wind power project in Michigan history is taking shape in rural Oceana County on the picturesque shores of Lake Michigan.
With hopes of bringing this state up to speed with the nation's fastest growing source of electricity, Rich VanderVeen of Grand Rapids-based Mackinaw Power has proposed a 21-turbine wind farm on an elevated 8,000 acres of farmland north of Muskegon.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0507/10/D01-242564.htm
Posted by Dave at July 10, 2005 11:19 PM