Getting ready for the 'Big Wind'


	Getting ready for the 'Big Wind'

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4-3-2008 9:37 AM

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<P>Rose Bacon, who lives southwest of Council Grove in the Flint Hills, spoke 
following Porter’s comments. Bacon gave the audience members a lot to think 
about. Bacon, who is in the cattle and ranching industry, has done extensive 
research on wind energy. She commented on wind energy terminology.</p> <P>“They are not farms,” she said. “They don’t raise anything. They are wind 
turbines, they are not windmills.”</p> <P>There are no state or federal regulations, safety or otherwise, in regards to 
wind energy, Bacon said.</p> <P>“There are guidelines,” she said. “But they are only guidelines. There is 
absolutely no teeth to them. If you, as a county, do not make regulations ... 
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