{"id":2349,"date":"2009-05-14T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2012-02-02T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T12:53:21","slug":"wisconsin-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/wisconsin-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Butler<\/a>
\nButler Ridge Project near Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, May 2, 2009, with thanks to <\/span>Better Plan Wisconsin<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 (WTS.com has taken editorial liberties with this photo.)<\/span><\/p>\n

On May 12, 2009 the State of Wisconsin Assembly and Senate Committees on Energy<\/em> held a joint public hearing.\u00a0 They listened to 8 hours of public testimony regarding Assembly Bill 256 and Senate Bill 185<\/em>, which propose to remove all decision-making for wind energy projects from municipalities and give it to the state Public Service Commission.\u00a0 (This being the same PSC which has bowed to wind developers and approved 1000′ setbacks from homes like this one, above.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"People
\nClick here<\/a> for\u00a0Lynda Barry’s\u00a0rendering of some of the testimony<\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of rural Wisconsinites turned out for the hearing.\u00a0 They testified by the dozens, even as panel members drifted in and out of the room, and as panel members showed their obvious disdain and indifference to everything being said.\u00a0 Among presenters, there were tears, there were shaky voices, there was anger, there was sorrow.\u00a0 There was dignity and courage.\u00a0 There was eloquence.\u00a0 There was cogency.\u00a0 And there were statements made that were, yes,\u00a0technically irrelevant to the immediate issue of whether to turn over all control to the PSC, but were in no way irrelevant to the outrage of placing turbines in the speaker’s backyard.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Happily, the entire proceeding was professionally videotaped by Wisconsin Eye<\/a>, which appers to be a public interest group covering Wisconsin politics and legislation.\u00a0 WTS.com urges you to fix yourself a bowl of hot buttered popcorn, sit back, and watch the whole shebang.\u00a0 It’s an eye opener.
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\n\"Better<\/a><\/span>
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\nClick\u00a0here<\/a> to be taken to the Better Plan Wisconsin website.\u00a0 Scroll around till you find the above screenshot.\u00a0 Click on “Click here to Watch.”\u00a0 Have a box of tissues handy for tears.\u00a0
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