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Texas Is More Hospitable than Mass. to Wind Farms
October 2, 2006
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Sweetwater, Texas [Boston Globe] Like his father and grandfather before him, Johnny Ussery has always been a cattleman, tending 100 head -- and a few small oil wells -- on his parched, 2,500-acre ranch in the West Texas flatlands. Last January, however, Ussery decided to "change with the times." Breaking family tradition, he sold his herd and joined an enterprise that didn't even exist in Texas until 1995: wind energy. ... Long known for its oil and gas riches, Texas now produces enough environmentally friendly wind power to light 600,000 homes, and more wind farms are on the way. That's in sharp contrast with Massachusetts, ...
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Wind turbines can be appreciated as producing useful power for our needs without filling our atmosphere with plumes of carbon dioxide and pollutants as do our coal burning plants. Our climate is bad enough as it is and we do have a responsibility for all our children and grandchildren as well as for other nations to make good energy decisions.
adrianakau@aol.com