I live in a community with wind farms, so I know firsthand what it’s like. There are eight turbines within one mile of my house and 76 turbines in our township and everything is just fine.
Chicken little: the sky has not fallen.
I am not aware of anyone in the township with any ill effects linked to the turbines. Wind farms bring in great things like jobs, land revenue, increased land values and property tax revenue.
And I don’t understand why people like big city Cincinnati State Senator William Seitz and Michigander Kevon Martis (Feb. 19) interfere in an issue that doesn’t concern them.
Perhaps Mr. Martis is motivated by concerns other than the well-being of Ohioans, since some reports link him with fossil fuel front groups. Afraid of a little competition? Or maybe it’s the opposite: He wants to maintain Michigan’s lead in wind energy, where it is about to install new wind farms that will give it four times that of Ohio. And at least four times the wind tech jobs, four times the local tax revenue, four times the new farm revenue and four times the construction jobs. At least it’s not as bad as Texas, where we will soon be 50 times behind them for putting in windmills.
The facts are clear: the wind farm in our township pays $2.1 million in property taxes each year locally to our county, which is great for our schools. It’s way better than getting voters to approve new mills. And our wind farm increases the value of our farmland by allowing us to harvest a new crop: electricity!
— Bill Dowler, Convoy
