Great news from the alt.energy front. Seems like the people in the communities want nothing to do with wind power. From The Daily Caller:
Small Towns Fight Back Against World’s Largest Green Energy Company
Two rural Michigan towns are holding a referendum Tuesday on whether or not to block two of the world’s largest green energy companies from building wind turbines.
The vote could stop the companies DTE Energy and NextEra Energy from building 70 new wind turbines in Huron County. The county already has 550 wind turbines, but residents opposed to more wind turbines hope the referendum will block new turbines.
And why:
Huron County Wind Resistance says the future wind turbines would ruin the county’s rural feel and pose a health risk to residents.
As I have said before, alt.energy is making a few people very very rich:
NextEra made a profit of $21.5 billion between 2008 and 2015 but paid zero federal income taxes on it, according to The New York Times. In fact, the company received a net tax credit of $313 million thanks to government subsidies. The company has a total market capitalization of $62.43 billion. It currently operates 110 wind projects across 20 U.S. states.
Time for them to get off the taxpayer teat. alt.energy is not profitable without large government subsidies and these subsidies come straight out of our pockets.
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