Wind Turbine Economics
To Local Contractors & Suppliers,
As you know, the building market is very slow, but without a wind turbine zone the market will recover and you will have business again. If the wind industrial zone occurs and spreads around the Fowler, St. Johns, and Westphalia area as the wind developers expand their market, then your future buildings sites decrease. Many locations in the mentioned areas have residential vacant lots suitable and taxed as build sites. These lots are located in numerous places and provide opportunity for development and business for you.
Our County Government did not protect these lots from the wind turbine zone because they didn’t have an existing house. The wind turbine setback from a non-dwelling residential vacant lot or a larger tract of land is 1.5 times the wind turbine structure height.
If the wind turbines do get installed per our County regulations, then you as a builder, electrician, HVAC technician, or supplier lose building sites because people will have a difficult time selling their land or won’t build. Larger track land owners won’t be capable of easily selling or giving residential building sites to family because the wind turbine setbacks are very low and this dampens your livelihood even more.
Additionally, our Clinton County government has very few protected locations in Bengal and Dallas set for future residential building locations. These areas are supposedly protected because our County Commissioners and local township boards want to protect future growth areas. Why, because they know these areas won’t grow if a wind turbine zone occurs in that area.
If you allow this project to continue without expressing your opinion, then this could affect your living standards!
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Construction of a wind power facility creates a number of jobs for roadwork, excavation, and cement hauling, but they are temporary. The specialized work of installing the turbines is typically done by people the turbine manufacturer brings in from out of state. After the turbines are connected, one permanent, typically lowpaying, job per 10-20 megawatts of capacity is the average. Read More...