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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2019, 12:07:23 am »
Quote from: Bill Cipher on March 10, 2019, 11:18:03 pm
They deserve being buried in pig-shit?
Okay, I take it you have never been downwind of a pig farm.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2019, 12:33:07 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2019, 12:07:23 am
Okay, I take it you have never been downwind of a pig farm.

When I was growing up in rural Glasscock County (TX), there was a huge pig farm about 8  miles to the NW of us. In the winter we would get whiffs of it when the wind was out of the NW and slow enough to not raise dust.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #27 on: March 11, 2019, 12:36:15 am »
Quote from: Joe Wooten on March 11, 2019, 12:33:07 am
When I was growing up in rural Glasscock County (TX), there was a huge pig farm about 8  miles to the NW of us. In the winter we would get whiffs of it when the wind was out of the NW and slow enough to not raise dust.
Yep. They have an 'air' about them....
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #28 on: March 11, 2019, 02:10:56 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on March 10, 2019, 09:15:13 pm
It's called common sense and it abounds by the bushel-load in most folks.

Nah... It's called 'Go find an HOA and leave country folks alone.'
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #29 on: March 11, 2019, 02:14:53 am »
Quote from: Bill Cipher on March 10, 2019, 09:22:00 pm
Really?  Like building a substandard damn for his pig-waste pool?  Nobody has any right to require that safety standards be met up front?

Standard? WHAT standard? Where I live, there are no permits (damn few), and we like it like that.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #30 on: March 11, 2019, 02:38:09 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 02:14:53 am
Standard? WHAT standard? Where I live, there are no permits (damn few), and we like it like that.
I got a standard. Don't build a house downhill from a pond full of pig shit.
(Duh!)
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2019, 02:57:57 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2019, 02:38:09 am
I got a standard. Don't build a house downhill from a pond full of pig shit.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2019, 03:02:08 am »
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2019, 10:19:57 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on March 10, 2019, 03:24:16 am
He has no right if it impacts his neighbors adversely enough to change the qualify of life.  Things like noise or other types of pollution come to mind.

Do you think a bee farmer should have some right to object to the installation of all those incineration devices called solar panels next to his hives?

Or how about visual pollution like several 200 ft windmills erected alongside his house lot?
Years ago I belongs to a gun club that had about 100 acres. They had been there for about 40 years and had a big ole sign out in front of the place. One day someone bought the property next door a week later the club got a notice that we were making too much noise and scaring this guys chickens. Basically we told him to take a hike.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2019, 01:30:05 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 02:10:56 am
Nah... It's called 'Go find an HOA and leave country folks alone.'
Nope, I happen to be one of those country folks and did not care one bit to have two chicken farms built within a mile of my house last year.

Most country folks like me have common sense in spades and don't go around looking for creating new regulatory groups.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2019, 01:51:48 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on March 11, 2019, 01:30:05 pm
Nope, I happen to be one of those country folks and did not care one bit to have two chicken farms built within a mile of my house last year.

Most country folks like me have common sense in spades and don't go around looking for creating new regulatory groups.

Well then, I guess you get to put up with it or move.
The other feller gets to make a living too. Thank God it weren't pigs, I'd say.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #36 on: March 11, 2019, 01:52:51 pm »
Quote from: Drago on March 08, 2019, 10:47:39 am
Wind power causes climate change (downwind). Discontinue further construction.

So does every building of decent size.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #37 on: March 11, 2019, 01:57:06 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 01:51:48 pm
Well then, I guess you get to put up with it or move.
The other feller gets to make a living too. Thank God it weren't pigs, I'd say.
Moving away from a farm that's been in the family for a hundred years is your solution?

I get it now.

Hence the handle Roamer.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #38 on: March 11, 2019, 02:28:13 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on March 11, 2019, 01:57:06 pm
Moving away from a farm that's been in the family for a hundred years is your solution?

I get it now.

Hence the handle Roamer.

Yeah... I have moved exactly once since I got married, and that was because of the divorce... And I don't think I have been more than 150 miles from right here in the past two decades.

I do my roaming in the mountains.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #39 on: March 11, 2019, 02:40:46 pm »
I have to admit that I really liked the windmills when they first started installing them.  Then the things started showing up everywhere.  You can't look to any horizon here and not see the danged things.  I drive through a wind farm to where we do most of our drilling.  Three of the windmills have burned/melted in the last year or so.  Not to mention that most of them have oil or grease that is running down or staining their towers...not a pretty sight.  Sadly they aren't going anywhere anytime soon, since they have 30 year leases on the property.  I'll likely be gone before they are.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #40 on: March 11, 2019, 04:12:00 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on March 11, 2019, 02:40:46 pm
I have to admit that I really liked the windmills when they first started installing them.  Then the things started showing up everywhere.  You can't look to any horizon here and not see the danged things.  I drive through a wind farm to where we do most of our drilling.  Three of the windmills have burned/melted in the last year or so.  Not to mention that most of them have oil or grease that is running down or staining their towers...not a pretty sight.  Sadly they aren't going anywhere anytime soon, since they have 30 year leases on the property.  I'll likely be gone before they are.
Funny how people will bitch about a drilling rig, and it's rare one is some place for more than a couple of months...Then want to put up a taller fire hazard for 30 years.
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Re: Issues With Wind Farms
« Reply #41 on: March 11, 2019, 05:52:48 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2019, 04:12:00 pm
Funny how people will bitch about a drilling rig, and it's rare one is some place for more than a couple of months...Then want to put up a taller fire hazard for 30 years.


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