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Sorry about that bad link... I saw a video on some facebook fishing group page that I can no longer find. I was from a Senator in a different state who was initially for wind mills, they had them installed, it ended up costing state tax payers too much money to maintain them and they no longer want them.

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All part of the equation but after the capital is invested I'd guess it's impossible to change course. These are multi decade deals and I'm sure the investors have the utility companies and states locked up long-term before committing capital to the project. They have to. My guess after reading more on the subject is wind farms both on land and water seem to be gaining a lot of momentum so BOHICA. The best we can hope is the impact on marine resources is minimal and the areas dedicated remain accessible. Otherwise we won't have to worry about salt water fishing regulations any more because there won't be enough areas to fish. And fish prices which are off the charts already will skyrocket. But rest assured, I'm sure all this was factored into the feasibility study and our concerns are ill-founded :eek:!

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FYI, there's two good articles in RFA's 2018 winter Making Waves publication which just came out regarding the Wind Farm proposal. First article by RFA's Executive Director Jim Donofrio (pages 5 and 6) is titled "RFA says No to Wind Farms, An Environmental Scam of Epic Proportions". Second article by Michael Shellenberger - reprinted from an article in Forbes (pages 7 - 9) is titled Solar and Wind Really do Increase Electricity Prices. Both address some of the points touched on in this thread and are worth reading.