June 10, 2011
Michigan
Michigan
Wind developer accuses Emmet County of breaking the rules
By Linda Stephan, Inerlochen Public Radio, ipr.interlochen.org 10 June 2011
By Linda Stephan, Inerlochen Public Radio, ipr.interlochen.org 10 June 2011
Local governments have been busy crafting rules for wind turbines across northern Michigan, as both commercial and small-scale wind developers have been eager to build in some places.
One of the big questions is noise, how loud a turbine can be. Now one Harbor Springs wind turbine developer is crying foul, asking for a state investigation into Emmet County’s wind ordinance.
Listen to the audio above for IPR’s chat with Brandon Hubbard, who writes about this issue today in the Petoskey News-Review. Hubbard also talks about a commercial wind developer whose been buying up thousands of acres of leases in the area.
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/10/wind-developer-accuses-emmet-county-of-breaking-the-rules/