Public meeting with Scandia wind farm developers set for Thursday night in Mason County
"Scandia wants county boards' acceptance of seeing turbines from shore before starting three years of economic and environmental studies to determine if the $4 billion offshore wind plan is viable."
Attend this meeting and demand they tell you where they will be getting the money to build these studies and the wind farm. (your tax dollars)
And demand they tell us what will happen to electricity rates when they are built. (they'll skyrocket)
And ask yourself if there will be ANY companies left in Michigan when we are the highest energy cost state in the country.
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Iowa generates 15% of its power from wind and their power rates are 25% lower than ours.
Texas generates over 10% of its power from wind and their electricity rates have been dropping.
Germany's electricity rates have dropped and sometimes they actually pay people to keep their lights on at night to lighten the load on the grid...
Find out from Bloobmerg.com a financial news source 1/3 owned by Merril Lynch. Not exactly a hippie mag...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGDZMpv5Y9Vo&pos=13
Also from Bloomberg "The wind-energy boom in Europe and parts of Texas has begun to reduce bills for consumers."
Meanwhile...
West Michigan gets 70% of its power from Coal and 25% from nuclear and our electricity rates have been going up.
I suspect you're going to bring up Denmakr which taxes the crap out of their electricity, and everything else, making it more expensive...
The suggestion that wind power is going to make electricity more expensive doesn't play out in the real world.
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