filed: November 2, 2024 • Iowa
Harvest arrives before debris is cleared from Cedar County wind turbine fires
Credit: Olivia Cohen · Oct. 9, 2024 · thegazette.com ~~
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On Aug. 15, Sally Freeman received a call from a neighbor.
“Your wind turbine’s on fire again,” the neighbor said in the 5 a.m. call.
By the time Freeman looked out her window at the family farm near Mechanicsville, most of the turbine blade already had burned.
Her parents, Steve and Teresa Weets, agreed in 2012 to an easement with Acciona Wind Power to install two turbines on the family farm in Cedar County. But within the last 18 months, both turbines have been struck by lightning – and now, one of them twice.
The strikes left fiberglass, dust and other debris strewn over at least 240 acres, almost a third of the farm’s land. And with the fall harvest underway, the family’s frustration with having the damaged turbines removed and the debris cleaned up is threatening their bottom line.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/11/02/harvest-arrives-before-debris-is-cleared-from-cedar-county-wind-turbine-fires/
