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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 263215" data-attributes="member: 3373">From a different standpoint. How does a bird ( or most birds) ever fly into a windmill? They turn at a very slow speed, regardless of the wind speed. An eagle or hawk can spot a mouse in the areas from a 100' in the air but can't see the blades of turbine? Whether you like the looks of them is personal and doesn't really make sense as an argument against them. I find the new power lines that look like giant scarecrows with lines running for mile after mile much uglier, but that's my personal opinion. There is one in the county where I live and when first proposed it was supposed to add a significant amount of tax income to the county and schools in that district. Then the legislature changed the rules and amounted to very little, barely a break-even for either entity. The landowner do receive a fair payment for the towers on their property but as I see it, they are the only ones benefitting from the towers. I don't know the exact amount of payment in this area but I wonder how much extra they receive when you consider the amount of land taken out of production plus the hassle of farming around the towers and roads. It does eliminate the use of aerial spray application. If shelterbelts were a pain to farm around, imagine a quarter of land with 2-4 wind towers and roads.As far as property rights it might seem that each landowner gets to decide what to do with his/her property. That seems fair until your decisions begin to affect the neighbors. Kind of like draining water; Do you have the right to drain water onto a neighbors property?  Property rights only go so far when the actions affect others. Isn't that one of the big arguments with the Fargo Flood Protection? Who gets to hold the water until it can flow at a reasonable level through the Fargo area. Or if it goes through to qulckly, who does it affect further north. All actions have consequences.</blockquote>

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