LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Company making plans for wind farm in Black Hawk County 

Credit:  Written by Jessica Hartman, Multimedia Reporter | KWWL | February 2, 2017 | www.kwwl.com ~~

Iowa is a leader in the wind energy industry, yet Black Hawk County has denied past proposals from companies looking to bring the industry here.

Now, another company is proposing a wind farm in southern Black Hawk County.

RPM Access of De Soto, Iowa has several wind farms throughout the state and is now working on plans to put between 30 and 40 wind turbines south of Waterloo.

Southern Black Hawk County, rooted in agriculture, where people’s closest neighbors are fields away.

RPM Access is looking to fill that horizon with wind turbines.

But for some residents like Wayne McGarvey, who is a third generation farmer on his land, “I am going to be looking at them, any direction I look. As you can see, I’ve got a very good view here. Everybody marvels at my view when they come in this house. That view is not going to be what I like if they are built.”

The wind farm could possibly decrease the value of the land and create some health concerns.

Those are worries that Tom Leohr, a landowner in the area, shares.

One of their concerns is shadow flicker, named for the flashes of light created by turbines on a sunny day.

“Some turbine companies have put up new drapes for people, but it creeps through every crack. It messes with people’s heath and equilibrium . . .and people are packing up and moving. You know, Black Hawk County is all I’ve known,” said Tom Leohr.

But right now, there is no official plans filed with the county for where the turbines will be built. The company is working to get landowner approval.

McGarvey says he was approached and given a copy of the agreement land owners would have to sign.

“There is 10 different easements you are signing when you sign that easement. Of course they don’t give you a copy of that easement to look over before you sign it. The people that I know that have signed it; at least the four people I have talked to said, ‘No, they never saw a copy of the easement,'” said McGarvey.

KWWL has reached out to RPM Access several times and have yet to hear back from them.

The Black Hawk County Board of Adjustments will have to approve any plans for a wind farm.

Official plans have not yet been submitted to the county.

Source:  Written by Jessica Hartman, Multimedia Reporter | KWWL | February 2, 2017 | www.kwwl.com

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon