a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:2490:"Three cheers for Clinton County's own Dallas, Essex and Bengal townships:<br />
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<div>The latest roadblock to increasing green power generation comes from three mid-Michigan townships that are trying to put limits on a 40-turbine, $120 million wind farm planned by Chicago-based Forest Hill.</div>
</blockquote>That's a &quot;roadblock&quot; that I'll be happy to see. Green energy is a farce with hundreds of billions of dollars being wasted on the rainbows and unicorns scheme by leftists in their scheme to combat the imaginary problem of man-made global warming. (I hope I said that well.) Anyway, you know there are lawyers involved, so let's see what Jon Bylsma, attorney for the group attempting to ugly-fy our county, says about the people who don't want a windmill farm here:<br />
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<div>&quot;There is a very organized, loud minority of folks that go from wind project to wind project opposing them,&quot; says Bylsma.</div>
</blockquote>The townships, I may add, are not (unfortunately) attempting to ban windmills, they are attempting to cap them at 380 feet. To give you some perspective, Lansing's tallest building, the Boji Tower, is 297 feet. So these are not small eyesores that are trying to be installed, they are monstrously big eyesores.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130422/OPINION01/304220306">Detroit News opinion piece</a> raises a good point with it's last paragraph:<br />
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<div>State policy and local regulations must be reconciled if the goal of a mixed menu of energy sources is to be met. Lawmakers should take up the issue and decide whether achieving the 10 percent mandate is important enough to force local communities to open the door to windmills.</div>
</blockquote>Exactly. Lawmakers should decide whether the fallacy of the green energy sources and the rights of the citizens is more importance. Michigan has mandated 10% of its energy must come from &quot;green&quot; sources by 2015, but the people spoke during the last election when Proposal 3, which mandated that energy companies produce at least 25% of their power from &quot;green&quot; energy sources, was easily defeated.<br />
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The will of the people seems quite clear on this, and our representatives should honor those wishes and the idea of federalism, not go down the road of Obamacare and ramming unwanted legislature through the legislature that we will all regret.<br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}