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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Environment - "The winds of change may be coming to Northwest Indiana"

Updating this ILB entry from March 27th, see this story today in the NWI Times, reported by Melanie Csepiga, headed "Eagle Creek folks in wind farm talks." Some quotes:

Farm owners in Eagle Creek Township in southernmost Lake County soon could be signing contracts aimed at delivering a $5 billion, 100-megawatt wind farm to the landscape.

Andy Paterson, president and CEO of Michigan Energy Generation, the wind farm development company that has been discussing contracts with local farmers, will meet with Eagle Creek landowners at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Range Line Community Presbyterian Church, 18095 Clay St., Hebron.

"We hope to start signing on April 12," Paterson said. "Building a wind farm is an elaborate process that starts with signing landowners and collection of wind data on a site. From this point, the process can take two to five years based on numerous other studies and circumstances."

Paterson's firm has some weight behind it. Michigan Energy is partnered with International Power PLC, a London-based independent power-generating company that recently merged with energy behemoth GDF Suez.

Here is a long list of earlier ILB entries re wind turbines.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 10, 2011 07:00 PM
Posted to Environment