The Windhaters are wrong. When will the Lincoln CC wake up
l3wis 
Wind energy in the Midwest, what an amazing MODERN concept!
These poll numbers of course don’t surprise me;
On the question “Would you support or oppose a plan to build wind turbines to generate electricity in the southern part of Lincoln County?†surveyors found 41 percent strongly in favor, 26 percent somewhat supportive. Thirteen percent were somewhat opposed and 17 percent strongly opposed.
So will the county commissioners wake up?
The company released partial results from its poll in the run-up to a county commission vote on wind turbine setbacks that would doom the project if left unchanged. Commissioners could decide as quickly as Tuesday morning
It will be interesting to see what kind of excuses the county commissioners will cook up to vote for these stupid setbacks (especially Schmidt and King). It will probably go to a referendum anyway, so they might as well vote against the setbacks and let voters decide.
But you gotta love the windhaters and their continued opposition based on what they can pull from their butts;
“We’ll take all of that with a great amount of salt,†said Winnie Peterson, Director of We Care-SD. “Some people were very upset about the way the information was presented.â€
We Care’s volunteers conducted door-to-door surveys in 2015, and Peterson said more than 80 percent of those surveyed within the area of the original 500-turbine project said they didn’t want to live within a quarter mile of a turbine.
I wonder if Winnie knows that it is a county wide election? Asking my neighbors what they think of a certain ballot proposal certainly isn’t scientific, but what would you expect from a group that depends on junk science to argue their points?
“As people from South Dakota, we don’t need to hire a fancy Washington polling agency to find out what our neighbors think,†Peterson said.
The poll from GOP strategist Glen Bolger’s Washington, D.C.-based agency is the first survey of Lincoln County voters specific to wind energy. National polls consistently show support for wind power and other forms of renewable energy.
The questions were asked of 300 registered voters, with 120 cell phone interviews by telephone March 23-26, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.66 percent.
Fancy or Not, it is scientific and way more accurate then the rag-tag group compiled of coffee drinkers from a Canton Café. I can’t wait to see them crushed at the polls, I’m sure commissioner King will blame the crack baby having liberals for swaying the vote.
