Coalition for Sensible Siting - Forward to 2012

T. Boone Pickens' highly controversial AWA Goodhue industrial wind project proposed in SE Minnesota is featured prominently as a Rochester Post Bulletin "Story of the Year". (login required for full story)  Citizens concerned by poorly sighted wind energy projects observe that reporter Brett Boese has covered the AWA Goodhue project for the last year with award-winning clarity and excellence.

During the last year, the Coalition for Sensible Siting has been contacted with offers of assistance,  encouragement, and requests for help from concerned citizens in Wisconsin, New York, Michigan, Illinois, North Dakota, Wyoming, California, North Carolina, Texas, Massachusetts, Oregon, Alaska, Washington D.C., and across Minnesota.  We've also heard from concerned citizens in England and Canada. We are thankful for the outpouring of intelligent engagement across the US and around the globe.

Coalition for Sensible Siting has worked to educate citizens and legislators about the effects of federal, state and local industrial wind policy. The citizens and legislators working to bring sanity to industrial wind siting hail from the farthest edges, and every location within, the spectrum of political points of view.

We are encouraged by the continued excellent work of other industrial wind education groups including National Wind Watch; individual citizens including John Droz; the success of citizens working on the Cape Wind project; and our friends in Paynesville Minnesota who start 2012 turbine-free.

For most of the past decade the only voice heard by most legislators, media and the public were industrial wind and environmental lobbyists, owners and investors acting in their own financial self-interest.  The Coalition for Sensible Siting is glad to help bring a voice to broad, experience-based reality of the negative affects wind energy has on humans, animals, the economy and the environment.

Coalition for Sensible Siting looks forward to the adventure of the New Year.