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Texas Breeze: Landowners Call Wind Turbines Ugly; Court Says Too Bad
Posted on August 22, 2008
Among all the other hurdles facing renewable energy, from economics to technology, will the real bogeyman be aesthetics?Clean-energy revolution or eyesore? (FPL)For now, wind powers triumphant march in the U.S. can count on another legal smackdown of NIMBYism, after a Texas appeals court yesterday dismissed a suit by landowners upset with a big wind farm built by FPL Energy. Landowners decried the turbines noise and their spoiled sunsetswhich the court agreed was a pitybut the appeals court couldnt find grounds to rule against the power company.Since the early days of wind power, turbine noise...
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