Hey all, I know most have an opinion on the big industrial wind farms either pro or con....... good or bad !
I am just seeking some input from around the USA on any lawsuits filed in district courts dealing with the wind farms. Here in Nebraska there are a few farms but I don't hear much about lawsuits filed to stop them or any that have been successful winning a lawsuit against the developer. Does anyone on here know for a fact the results of a court case concerning the wind farms in their state? Just want to gain some knowledge about what is happening around the country. Thanks

I remember seeing signs down East of Wagner saying no to windmills years back.

We successfully stopped a wind farm with slight changes to our county zoning rules. If you get involved in a leasing situation, read the contract carefully. The devil is definitely in the details. The most reliable way to generate electricity is with nuclear power.

I hear of groups forming opposition every time a new wind farm is proposed. The wind farms always get built.

In my county, we have over 400 of those unsightly things. Trying to slow them down, the county commissioners enacted stiffer regs as far as setbacks from roads and occupied dwellings. Didn't slow them down, they got built anyway. The farms were developed in several different projects, spread over 5-8 years. Word has it there is another project in the works, amounting to 100 more towers.

Not a lawsuit but we rejected them here.

The county board passed ordinances allowing them here and implemented setbacks from inhabited dwellings, I think it was 1000 ft.

We voted out those board members and voted in members who ran that they were going to further protect property rights with further setbacks.

Those new members changed the setbacks as promised to further distances and from private property lines, not just houses. I'm remembering it was about 2400 ft.

It made it financially impractical for them to put so few in. They threatened to sue but it never went anywhere.

Stop the subsidies of wind farm and they will stop building them. The Gov. Green program. JMO

I have a distant relative in Nebraska who won a lawsuit. Well, I think it settled out of court. Anyway, he sued for wind rights based on the location of a windmill on an adjacent property. He claimed, if he wanted to put up his own windmill in the future, it wouldn't function properly, due to the proximity of the other windmill.

Once something is past the experiment stage it should no longer be subsidized. It is either viable or it isn't.

In the last 8-10 years we have had the Windmill Epidemic here in Mid-Michigan. Mainly farmers reaping the joys of payment.

Its cost is around a half a million each to setup and maintain.

Just the other day it traveled across the state and I wondered "are we in Holland"? I wasn't far enough south and west to be in Holland, Michigan.

Walker, et al. v. Kingfisher Wind, W.D. OK, slammed the brakes on opposition lawsuits in Oklahoma.

They wouldn't be nearly as annoying if they didn't dominate the landscape. The US needs the electricity, I think there are better ways to generate it.

every time a wind farm is going in or planned to go in in southern WI there is a campaign against it.

people who are all yeah! commie , yeah green energy , suddenly go All Not in My Back Yard !!! Oh the Birds! oh the view!

I live on the Garden peninsula and we now have a windmill farm that now stretches from one end to another.Farmers love them,or should I say they love the monthly checks they receive.

Interesting...... I take it the courts ruled in favor of wind development? You can PM me if you want . And thanks for all the comments....

I have no love for them and make no bones about it. I see them as a colossal failure at best. They claim them to be able to still produce for 25 years. Most that are 15 years or more old are obsolete as in no parts made for them. Most by that time frame are in need of a rebuild of the gear boxes. If they haven't changed that means bring it to the ground by way of take off the rotors. They are also filling the landfills with the blades now as they aren't recyclable.

I wouldn't have near the problem with them IF they were setting up a few for research and development. Learn how to walk before you decide to run.

Why aren't thorium salt generators being pursued? They can be fueled with the spent fuel from our reactors that we are burying.

That would make too much sense. People who always follow the science couldn't accept something like that.

Huron county MI has had windmills > 25 years already. Boy these windmills have caused a lot of arguments here. I understand folks can use the money but most that have windmills sure do not have them next to their home. Not by my house but over by the neighbors is fine.

A few self zoned townships have been successful avoiding wind farms by changing the set back distances. But most of the other townships are not self zoned and must follow the county master plan.

Probably the biggest issue that helped these townships vote to change the setbacks is the taxable value change pushed by the Jennifer Granholm administration. The taxable value was not to depreciate for 18 years ( not sure on the time). That changed to normal tax rules and the county did not realize anywhere close to tax revenue that was “promised”. I do not believe the county would have been so accommodating if they had any clue of this . Can you say hoodwinked by Jenny? Thank goodness she is in the Biden administration! I toured the MI capital bldg. with my daughters class a few years ago. Jenny’s portrait had a windmill in the corner.

Sort of like what the Gates Foundation has claimed to have made. Remember from the other thread, Bill Gates is a horrible man.