Feds call for no coastal turbines — unless county thinks otherwise

November 2014 uncategorized GLB Admin
Lake_Huron_NASAby Chris Aldridge, Huron Daily Tribune

HURON COUNTY — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it is confident that land area within three miles of the Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay shorelines needs to be protected from wind energy development.

So confident, in fact, that the federal conservancy agency recommends Huron County include in its wind energy ordinance a “three-mile buffer inland from the shoreline that precludes development of wind power projects,” according to an Oct. 20 letter sent to the county.

http://www.michigansthumb.com/news/local/article_a579ba9c-6e58-11e4-8def-7368c1e1599c.html

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