Like wise down hear wirev. County govs like them for the increase tax base/income. Farmers like the income, and very little inconvenience. Major utilities like them for the efficiency, with very few failures, and are expanding their wind farms rapidly. Local, county, or townships have no snow plowing duties, or any other road maintenance other than their previous duty to their own roads. After constructions, access roads are a mere lane, which wind farm owners care for and maintain totally themselves. Utility companies say natural gas has put coal out of business for many years now due to coal transportation costs, and emissions. Nuclear is cost prohibitive due to the nuclear waste, spent fuel, and what to do with it. On site spent fuel storage is limited, and long term permanent storage is not available, and the very high cost transportation of it. Good friend of mine works on a nuclear refueling crew, says that is what makes it high cost energy, and utility company's want to get away from it, and the liability of it. We bailed out 3 of the plants here, three years ago due to this spent fuel storage/transportation/liabilty issue. Seems most who oppose originally, generally come to like the local benefits the wind farms provide in taxes collected. I am not implying in anyway, that the Huron Mountains, the Kewee, or any other area up there should have these, but do oppose.
