Wind Farms on Lake Michigan part of plan to go from ‘Rust Belt’ to ‘Green Belt’ – WBBM (Chicago)

Offshore wind farm“We saw the smokestacks and steel mills go down and yet those communities aren’t given the jobs that they deserve and that they need,” state Sen. Robert Peters said. “This is an opportunity for us to re-engage an industrial revolution that is built on a dream."

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Giddyap
3 years ago

first hard lake freeze will crush these eco-boondoggles

debtsor
3 years ago
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There will be hundreds of dead birds littering the ice below the windmills, it will be a PR disaster if anyone could get pictures of it.

Old Spartan
3 years ago

Look at any of the big wind farms in the Midwest. They are horrible eyesores and destroy the vista wherever they can be seen. And on top of that they are totally unreliable sources of power. So we should put them in Lake Michigan? Vomit.

Tom Paine's Ghost
3 years ago

“This is an opportunity for us to re-engage an industrial revolution that is built on a dream.” What a crock. Should be corrected to “….built on a complete failure to understand the laws of physics.” Windmills work at best 45% of the time. Solar panels work at best 40% of the time. Nuclear is the only solution but these greenies are too dumb to understand anything technically more complex than an iphone charger plug.

Victor
3 years ago

No

Pat S.
3 years ago

What an unholy thing to do to our lakefront.

Ranks right up there with the Obama edifice.

Burnham is rolling over in his grave.

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