State your views on the proposed wind turbine project.

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Permalink Reply by Debbie Chase on February 28, 2010 at 8:16pm

Check out this website. Some interesting views on wind farms. www.bluewaterwind.com

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Permalink Reply by Esther Karp 1 day ago

I read in the LDN that the next Ludington city council meeting is tomorrow Tuesday, 3/8 at 9:30 am. I think they are going to present Scandia’s new scaled back plan and oh, take no public comments.
According to the city website, this is not a usually scheduled meeting. Seem to me this is deliberate so they get a low turn out. According to the website the scheduled meeting is for tonight, Monday 3/7 at 6:30 p.m. I don’t know if they are having this meeting also or what.
I have a VA appointment tomorrow in Ann Arbor at 9:30 am, se we’re going to get a room over there tonight. I won’t be around for either meeting and this has me very worried. The behavior of the city council has me worried that they are going to approve Scandia to take the next steps. I don’t want this to happen, but I don’t know what to do about it.
Help.
Someone should show up and report back to us what happened. I asked for this before and got noting. I hope that is not the case this time.

Esther

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Permalink Reply by martin daly 1 day ago

Hello to everyone. I hope that you all are managing well. Throughout the debate over the question of validity for wind turbine based electricity as intended for the mass consumer, one extremely important point continues to be under-emphacised, that being the lack of economic viability of wind here in Michigan. Neither on land nor on water. Yes, probable bird and bat kill, gear oil spills, navigational obstructions and beacons/lights, all have a juried concern for us, not withstanding the probability of windmills pertaining to adverse impact on personal property values. Just the same, baseline economic fact indicates that wind turbines as designed are unable to compliment the use of the domestic and conventional resources that are currently generating the electricity that we have become accustomed to. These resources being expressed as consistently cleaner burning coal and utmost so Nuclear, both as utilized for base load systems in charging the steam turbines that rotate the electrical generators that create electricity. Domestically provided natural gas, although more expensive because it's less efficient, plays in for peak demand periods as required. I've just explained what systems have been /are working for our economic benefit. It's like free enterprise, and that is what I am emphasizing. Government sponsored/subsidized wind, because wind is so inefficient and unpredictable here in west Michigan, as well as in so many other locales of the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, doesn't ignite even one single candle for the sake of energy independence. I'm so sorry. Continued reduction of man made greenhouse gasses and other pollutants constitutes worldwide concientiousness, and understandably worldwide applaude, even if it does not end up making any difference when the eventual volcanoes erupt and the eventual earthquakes occur. Why do we continue to think that we are so "in charge" of this ecosystem called earth when we unable of even maintaining peace amongst ourselves while to trying to wrest "our" piece of what remains to be had. Everybody, everyone person, everyone corporation, everyone government and everyone nation, we are all out for our own better interests. May the higher orders take their place, whatever they may be, it may be becoming time.

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Permalink Reply by Sue Piechowiak 15 hours ago

Thak you for a thoughtful response taking the view of us all as global citizens. Though lost to some, the Great Lakes are this nation's largest freshwater reource and for that reason alone it is not a place to experiment with technology that remains unproven, witness six defunct wid farms in Hawaii.

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