“Absentee landowners may be
gaining financially from [wind power] development, but the idea that ‘wind
farming’ is a compatible agriculture use is more myth than reality in
Illinois…. In fact, those Illinois farmers who have leveraged their operations
conservatively tell us that they’re not interested in the ‘windfall’ of wind
farming.”
The wind industry continues to
claim that wind “farming” and agriculture are compatible land uses. Here it is
again in a recent letter in the Wall Street Journal by the American
Wind Energy Association defending the economics of wind power.
For years, politicians and
urban/suburbanites have been treated to heaping doses of win-win business tales
of family farmers leasing sections of their crop land for wind development,
while working the soil right up to the towers and earning extra revenue to keep
the land open. But like so much Big Wind hype, there’s an ugly reality that has
gone untold.
Turbine Roads, Soil Compaction,
and Reduced Crop Yields
Back in 2007, Windaction.org posted “What have I
done?” a true story about a farmer in Northeast Fond du Lac County
(Wisconsin) who agreed to lease a portion of his land for wind development. He
said:……To Read More……
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