 tilting at windmills three cheers for clinton county s own dallas essex and bengal townships the latest roadblock to increasing green power generation comes from three midmichigan townships that are trying to put limits on a 40turbine 120 million wind farm planned by chicagobased forest hill that s a roadblock 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 manmade 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 uglyfy our county says about the people who don t want a windmill farm here there is a very organized loud minority of folks that go from wind project to wind project opposing them says bylsma 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 the detroit news opinion piece raises a good point with it s last paragraph 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 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 green 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 green energy sources was easily defeated 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  