Iowa Farmer Regrets Signing Wind Turbine Lease After Both Turbines On Her Land Burned To The Ground
A couple of hours before the final BOS vote on the WECS on Wednesday, May 29, we received an email…
Category: Economics
Prime Farmland Is Protected in Buchanan County
Buchanan County’s Comprehensive Plan already protects prime farmland against encroachment from non-agricultural commercial interests. We need to keep it that…
Fact Check: Did P&Z Really Propose Condemning Land?
In a recent letter to the editor of the Independence Bulletin Journal, Allen Miller claimed that the Buchanan County P&Z…
Alliant Energy Announces Iowa Rate Increases to Pay for Green Energy
Buchanan County and others in Iowa will see rate increases in 2024 and 2025 to help cover the cost of…
Wisconsin Hikes Electricity Rates, Citing Renewable Energy as the Cause
All five investor owned Wisconsin utility services have announced their intent to raise electrical rates, citing the cost of constructing…
Big ‘Green’ and Mean: A Wind-Energy Giant Attacks Small-Town America
This article has been reprinted with permission from the original author, Robert Bryce, as well as permission from National Review.…
NextEra’s Job Outlook for Wind Turbine Techs is Misleading
Mark Twain once famously wrote, “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” NextEra’s recent claim on…
Siemens Stock Drops 37% Because of Wind Turbine Failures
Siemens, a major manufacturer of wind turbines, has seen their stock value plummet 37% in the last couple of days.…
Over-reliance on Wind Turbines Puts Power Grid at Risk
In February of 2021, a perfect storm hit Texas. An ice storm caused massive power blackouts, largely due to an…