To: Douglas County Planning Commission and Douglas County CommissionersIn 1981 I purchased a 10-Kilowatt Jacobs Wind Charger and placed it on a hill on my farm in southernDouglas County. The Jacobs was the Cadillac of the wind chargers. It was rated at 10 KW in a 25-mphwind. The wind charger cost $18,000 and I received…
Learn moreIf the Climate Crazies are so worried about Plastic Straws and Plastic Shopping Bags from Wal-Mart, why does the SAME CHEMICAL in all these horrid wind turbines not bother them? Guess it’s because it’s out here in Kansas, where people don’t have any pull with the Government. Do they really think we still live in…
Learn moreI live in Kingman Co and I just got to say…. fight like hell to keep them out! I have 2 of those horrible things towering over my home just 1/4 of a mile away. Just across the property line in my Neighbors land. Which doesn’t even live anywhere near it. At night I can…
Learn moreI live in southwest Kingman County. I just wanted to share with you firsthand experience living near one of those horrible things. I live on my grandparents’ old farm. My nearest neighbor is over a mile away. People live in the country for various reasons. One of my reasons WAS a totally black sky where…
Learn moreMy wife and I purchased our home in 1991 near Waverly, Kansas, in Coffey County. It is a half mile section road so there is little to no traffic. Over the years we have purchased other properties on this road, so we now own 235 acres on both sides of the road from our house…
Learn more“I am not from Douglas County, but I do live in the Kansas Reading Wind Farm. Not far from the windfarm office. At first, I was excited about the idea of the windfarm but when the process started, I realized this was in no way going to be a positive project for our community. First,…
Learn more“We have an acquaintance who is a crop duster based in Kansas, but works in several neighboring states also. When he was asked how the wind mill farms affected his business he gave several examples of negative issues. First of all, he said that he can’t guarantee the land owner that the treatment that he…
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