Construction phase of wind turbines
at Backbone Mountain, Tucker County, WV.

Legislators need to know the other side of the story about wind farms, because it is their dispensing of favors to the industry that keeps it alive.

If legislators begin to hear from constituents that all is not well with wind farms, and if they hear from enough of them, they may be persuaded to rethink their support of these welfare-dependent industrial wind plants.

Although unelected to office, public utility commissions and any other government agencies involved in the approval process and regulation of wind farms are also likely to be responsive to persistent public input.

Sample Letter You Can Send Write your U.S. Representative

Most will have a form to fill in with your name, address, phone number and email address and a blank for putting in a message. If you are unsure of what to write, you could copy and an anti-windmill press release from a Kansas legislator (see below) and paste it into the text box.

If you decide to take this relatively easy way to send a message to your representatives, you may want to put in a short preamble -- something like:

The above is intended only as an example. Please use your own words if you decide to send a message.

Here are some "talking points" for letter writing:

Subsidized Survival - Industrial scale "wind farms" cannot not make it on their own in a market economy. They need the crutches of tax breaks, production credits and legislatively mandated and imposed market share to survive, forcing power companies to include a certain percentage of renewables in the energy supply.

Not Clean & Green - There are a number of well-intentioned organizations concerned with reducing air pollution that have successfully lobbied government to retain and expand these exclusive advantages originally passed in order to help an infant industry get on its feet.

However, these advocates of industrial scale wind farms are so enamored of its image as clean energy that they have failed to come to terms with the reality of its failings. This has put them in the position of relying on government to permanently prop up an industry that could not make it on its own. Wind turbines are too inefficient and unreliable to have any impact on improving air quality.

The Future of Wind Power - Wind power has a place in cleaning up the air, but its future is in home-scaled wind plants where individual home owners run the meter backwards when the wind blow and simultaneously reduce emissions from power plants by lessening demand.

These decentralized inputs do not destabilize the power grid the way industrial scale wind plants do. And they do not require the back-up capacity and infrastructure needed to reliably connect wind farms to the grid.