LET SOMEBODY ELSE SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY.

A power company is seeking authority to build wind turbines not far from Cold Spring Shops headquarters.  People who will live or farm almost under the towers aren't happy.  "Many attendees wore stickers and brought in signs reflecting a stance against a wind farm being built in the county. Some said to the board during public comment that they are all for renewable energy for the county, but not in places where people live."  They raise the usual fears of ambient noise, and flickering sunlight.

What intrigues, though, is how quickly the wind turbines wear out (or become obsolescent?)

The board invited Lee County zoning administrator Chris Henkel to the meeting for a question-and-answer session about Lee County’s experience with wind farm decommissioning. Henkel said the county was one of the first in the state to have wind farms, and now it is starting to decommission them 13 years later.

Henkel said his county worked out an agreement with power companies that built the farms that they need to hold $40,000 a tower in escrow funds and give the escrows back to the county if the power companies decide to decommission towers.

The story is still developing, and I am seeing some "No Wind Farm" signs in nearby fields.