- We respectfully request of Madison County Iowa Supervisors the following elements in a Wind Energy Ordinance to provide Health, Safety, and Welfare. You, as elected officials have taken an oath to provide protection for the residents of Madison County Iowa. We request you heed and honor the resolution and recommendations of our Madison County Board of Health, made up of several highly respected, highly educated members, who after months of research, using their education, experiences, and knowledge determined industrial wind turbines have potential health effects and recommended at least a 1.5 mile setback from a nonparticipating landowner’s property line. Rather than catering to a handful landowners wanting an extra income, the county administrators wanting a larger budget for wages, a large compensation package, and material items for the county, and also a large million dollar corporation.
1 plus mile setbacks from property lines
35 dBA Noise Limits not an average
ADLS Aircraft Radar Detection Lighting System
Bat Protection System
Shadow Flicker Detection System for ZERO Shadow Flicker
A Guaranteed Property Value Agreement for property within 2 miles of a wind turbine.
A Hard Surface Road Agreement or Taxation
A Blade Recycling Plan in Place not a promise of one
A Decommissioning Plan with Full removal of concrete from the ground Full Escrow
A Nonredacted Health and Safety Instruction Manual provided at application from the manufacturer, not the energy corporation, of the make, model, and type of the turbine to be permitted.
A Tree Planting Agreement to Aid in Climate Control for each Turbine planted.
Meaningful Environmental Testing by a third party.
We are residents, relatives, friends, tourists, concerned citizens and have signed this petition to request protection for Madison County Iowa residents and the county itself from the too invasive too harmful too expensive too many industrial wind turbines! Enough!
6 Comments
We need all requested elements in this petition. Do the right thing! Industrial wind turbines are high impact and will change the character and image of our county for decades to come! The BOH has given its resolution and recommendations to ignore this is a blatant slap in the face and stating you know better! This cannot be about MONEY!
Showing that they are not good for your health.
Please protect our residents and our county. You can be the richest person in the world but without health you have nothing! Protect our health and safety along with our property rights and property values! Thank you.
Not sure why my city is Postville, I put in Dexter Iowa Agree! Thank you for the comment and signature! With over 85% of the residents in the township directly effected by the slated Arbor Hill Wind Project stating they do not want to live by industrial wind turbines and they want the supervisors to follow the MCBoH resolution and recommendation that alone should be enough for the supervisors to realize the importance of placing the health, safety, and welfare of our residents as a high priority... rather than catering to these million dollar energy corporations and a handful of landowners most who are absentee landowners and will not be directly affected by these industrial monstrosities along with the county officials who want a larger budget for wages, a larger compensation package, and material items for the county. This cannot be about MONEY. Chasing after a promised income that is not guaranteed and may never come. MidAmerican Energy's plan to repower turbines that are 10 years to receive more production tax credits before the subsidies die by replacing turbines way before the touted 40 years they were to last will allow them to start over at ZERO % property taxes the county may never see the income stated! Enough!
Always got your back Shelley!
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- We respectfully request of Madison County Iowa Supervisors the following elements in a Wind Energy Ordinance to provide Health, Safety, and Welfare. You, as elected officials have taken an oath to provide protection for the residents of Madison County Iowa. We request you heed and honor the resolution and recommendations of our Madison County Board of Health, made up of several highly respected, highly educated members, who after months of research, using their education, experiences, and knowledge determined industrial wind turbines have potential health effects and recommended at least a 1.5 mile setback from a nonparticipating landowner’s property line. Rather than catering to a handful landowners wanting an extra income, the county administrators wanting a larger budget for wages, a large compensation package, and material items for the county, and also a large million dollar corporation.
1 plus mile setbacks from property lines
35 dBA Noise Limits not an average
ADLS Aircraft Radar Detection Lighting System
Bat Protection System
Shadow Flicker Detection System for ZERO Shadow Flicker
A Guaranteed Property Value Agreement for property within 2 miles of a wind turbine.
A Hard Surface Road Agreement or Taxation
A Blade Recycling Plan in Place not a promise of one
A Decommissioning Plan with Full removal of concrete from the ground Full Escrow
A Nonredacted Health and Safety Instruction Manual provided at application from the manufacturer, not the energy corporation, of the make, model, and type of the turbine to be permitted.
A Tree Planting Agreement to Aid in Climate Control for each Turbine planted.
Meaningful Environmental Testing by a third party.
We are residents, relatives, friends, tourists, concerned citizens and have signed this petition to request protection for Madison County Iowa residents and the county itself from the too invasive too harmful too expensive too many industrial wind turbines! Enough!
6 Comments
It is the responsibility of our county officials to represent and protect the residents of Madison County. With the ruling of the Madison County Board of Health as a guideline, it is imperative we have safe setbacks for industrial turbines of at least one mile from the property line of all non participants. Ideally this setback would be one and one half miles from the property lines, as suggested by the MCBoH. With proof to lack of efficiency and savings of carbon over the course of the past 20 years, it's time we accept this failure, and abandon the notion wind energy is anything it pretends to be. It's a property rights stealing, investment scam, and we demand we be protected from the negative effects that have been proven over and over throughout the world.
We need all requested elements in this petition. Do the right thing! Industrial wind turbines are high impact and will change the character and image of our county for decades to come! The BOH has given its resolution and recommendations to ignore this is a blatant slap in the face and stating you know better! This cannot be about MONEY!
Showing that they are not good for your health.
Please protect our residents and our county. You can be the richest person in the world but without health you have nothing! Protect our health and safety along with our property rights and property values! Thank you.
Not sure why my city is Postville, I put in Dexter Iowa Agree! Thank you for the comment and signature! With over 85% of the residents in the township directly effected by the slated Arbor Hill Wind Project stating they do not want to live by industrial wind turbines and they want the supervisors to follow the MCBoH resolution and recommendation that alone should be enough for the supervisors to realize the importance of placing the health, safety, and welfare of our residents as a high priority... rather than catering to these million dollar energy corporations and a handful of landowners most who are absentee landowners and will not be directly affected by these industrial monstrosities along with the county officials who want a larger budget for wages, a larger compensation package, and material items for the county. This cannot be about MONEY. Chasing after a promised income that is not guaranteed and may never come. MidAmerican Energy's plan to repower turbines that are 10 years to receive more production tax credits before the subsidies die by replacing turbines way before the touted 40 years they were to last will allow them to start over at ZERO % property taxes the county may never see the income stated! Enough!
Always got your back Shelley!
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It is the responsibility of our county officials to represent and protect the residents of Madison County. With the ruling of the Madison County Board of Health as a guideline, it is imperative we have safe setbacks for industrial turbines of at least one mile from the property line of all non participants. Ideally this setback would be one and one half miles from the property lines, as suggested by the MCBoH. With proof to lack of efficiency and savings of carbon over the course of the past 20 years, it's time we accept this failure, and abandon the notion wind energy is anything it pretends to be. It's a property rights stealing, investment scam, and we demand we be protected from the negative effects that have been proven over and over throughout the world.