Kansas removes a barrier to large scale windfarms.
by TreeHugger 
on 04.21.05
Proponents of wind power development in Kansas scored a victory this April when Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill creating a new State entity with the authority to build electricity transmission lines.
Excerpts from The Business Journal of Kansas City - 2:48 PM CDT Tuesday
"The new entity, the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority, is designed to aid the development of wind farms in rural stretches that aren't close to the electricity grid. It also gives utilities in remote areas of western Kansas a chance to hook into the grid and have better availability of electricity".
"There's a tremendous opportunity for wind generation, and this is one way to solve that problem," Charles Benjamin, a Sierra Club lobbyist who helped write the legislation, said Tuesday.
Kansas has been a net importer of electrical for some time and this law allows the state to build transmission lines and ship wind power to other states that are in an energy crunch.
Wow..spun one way, its an astounding bit of eco-socialism from a State that's been proudly conservative of late. Spun the other way, its pure market smarts and pragmatism that makes the State and our nation more sustainable.
Remember Dorothy who only wanted to wake up back in Kansas, leaving the tornado-spawned bad dream behind? Perhaps Kansas' Governor Sebelius wants to be thought of as wakening to "think globally and acting locally" like a TreeHugger. Even if she were only "accidentally green", TreeHuggers, though, should still wish her, and the new authority, well. With Kansas' courageous example, other States may be more inclined to "Follow the Yellow Brick Road".
'I love the smell of the prairie in the morning'.
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Buh bye birdies!
Would you rather them build a Coal Plant?
Cats and sliding glass doors kills 20+ times more birds than windfarms.
Get your facts straight before you charge at windmills.
Modern wind generators spin far slower than the earlier versions and accordingly are far less prone to puree our feathered friends.
Good points. Not only do the advanced turbines of today spin more slowly and are responsible for less bird related deaths than the family cat. I can only imagine that the poisons and pollution put out by fossil burning plants cause more damage to more than just birds. Can we all agree that as long as we roam the earth, we are going to consume our resources. Let's at least welcome these efforts to do better than we have. I say Bravo, let's challenge other politicians to follow suit.