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Yancey's Family Wind Woes In the News Again

The Yancey brothers' family feud over wind turbines is back in the news.

This 2008 AP story could have been from 2006, when the Maple Ridge wind project went online and brothers John and Gordon Yancey first made news with their family's disagreements over it.

The surrounding farmers and communities lined up and signed up for the $6,600 annual payments (per turbine). The Yanceys' father, Ed, went along with the project, leasing rights to install some of the 195 turbines right on the family's NY farm.

His boys (in their forties) still complain to any reporter who will listen. Gordon Yancey hates the sight and he hates the noise, he told the AP reporter in an interview at Yancey's backwoods inn, a local redneck resort for snowmobilers and ATV riders. The weekend of the interview, the inn was hosting a watercross extravaganza in which snowmobiles roar across a pond, with only their speed to keep them from sinking.

In the midst of it all, Yancey reflects bitterly on how the rest of his family -- and his whole community -- have embraced the evil turbines:

"Dad taught us such respect for the land..."

The United States has no shortage of folks who will speak out against renewable energy for as long as they live. Some will miss the irony of opposing clean energy in the name of respect for the land. The sooner they have taken their places in the peat bog, the sooner America can get on with the work at hand: becoming a sustainable-energy country.

"Wind power brings prosperity, anger" -- Associated Press story. (If CNN.com restricts access, Google the headline.)

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Although I live in Ohio, the Yancey's of Tug Hill Plateau are friends of mine. It's time to pick on someone your own size. Let's go as few rounds on the technical, environmental and economic costs and benefits of wind energy, shall we? If you aren't too busy, that is, industrializing the fabric of rural America at 4 MW per square mile -- for as long as you live.

"Green's the new RED."

Nice job of censorship on my earlier Yancey comment. Oops. I forgot. This won't get published either.

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