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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 432268" data-attributes="member: 605">As impossible as it sounds, ethanol wind and solar are in oil companies' portfolios. <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-oil-companies-are-walking-back-from-green-energy/ar-AA1uhqQd" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-oil-companies-are-walking-back-from-green-energy/ar-AA1uhqQd</a>I live in the middle of coal country. Large transmission lines going out. Wind energy needs to build close to those transmission lines to move their production. From my yard I can see the towers 4 miles away. Did it ruin my viewshed, not really. A new company, 49 Wind wants to put in 100 towers Golden Valley to Hazen. They had a public meeting, served food and then gave the schpeel. They don't come into a hostile environment to get beat up. They are there to listen to concerns and then mitigate those concerns later. There are more then 1000 people employed north of Beulah at $50 dollars per hour. The transmission lines are full. If 49 Wind puts their power in those lines, the coal fired plants and mines will have to throttle back. People will lose jobs, and the community will go backwards. Strangely absent, there were no management or CEO's from Basin Electric at the meeting. Very telling.</blockquote>