For those promoting and concerned about the potential of offshore wind in the Great Lakes, this Texas model seems to show what not to do:
http://enn.com/today.html?id=10447
"The wind rush is on," Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said. "We want to be No. 1. We want to attract the businesses that build the turbines, that build the blades."
Some environmentalists said the spinning blades could kill countless rare birds that migrate through the area each year on their way to and from winter grounds in Mexico and Central America.
"You probably couldn't pick a worse location," said Walter Kittelberger, chairman of the Lower Laguna Madre Foundation, an environmental group named for the strip of water between the mainland and Padre Island.
Posted by Dave at May 12, 2006 12:10 PM