New community owned wind power development being planned (in Fargo ND)

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http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2008/01/05/ag_news/regional_news/region10.txt

New community owned wind power development being planned

By DALE HILDEBRANT, Farm & Ranch Guide

FARGO, N.D. - Plans are currently moving ahead for the formation of a locally owned wind power development project that will have a wind tower farm in Griggs and Steele counties of east central North Dakota.

A meeting was held during the recent Northern Ag Expo in Fargo to inform farmers and ranchers of the investment opportunities the project offers.

“Why let a large corporate developer come in and develop our wind resource - when all of the profits are exported to another state?” asked Lloyd Anderson, a consultant to the board of governors of M-Power LLC, the local corporation working to establish the wind power project.

“When a corporate wind developer comes in and develops a resource, it makes payments to the landowners on the site where those turbines reside, but all the rest of the profits from the wind farm go back to where ever their headquarters are,” he continued.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Good for them.

I think it would be wonderful if the Dakotas, Montana & Wyoming turned themselves into the new hotbed of industry because of their wind & sun resources.