Voters in Ohio and Michigan Join 375 Other Localities in Vetoing Large Wind Projects
Heartland Author
December 5, 2022
By Robert Bryce
The hype about renewable energy keeps colliding with motivated opposition in rural America. That fact was made clear again during the November 8 mid-term elections when several rural communities in Ohio and Michigan voted overwhelmingly to reject proposed wind and solar projects.
In Crawford County, Ohio, residents voted by a 3 to 1 margin to reject the proposed 300-megawatt Honey Creek Wind Project which was being promoted by Apex Clean Energy. As reported by Gere Goble of the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum, “The room erupted into cheers as Kay Weisenauer read the results to members of Crawford Neighbors United who had gathered at the Crawford County Courthouse on Tuesday night: A referendum vote had upheld a 10-year ban on industrial wind development in Crawford County.”
Also on November 8, voters in three Michigan townships “resoundingly rejected ordinances enabling the Montcalm Wind project by Apex Clean Energy, a developer attempting to erect 75 turbines on farmland in Montcalm County northeast of Grand Rapids.” That’s from an article written by Garret Ellison of Mlive.com. Voters in Maple Valley, Douglass, and Winfield townships rejected ordinances amid what Ellison called “growing animosity toward wind and solar projects among rural residents in Michigan who see them as a potential threat to health and property values.”
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