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

McLean County added to wind farm lawsuit 

McLean County has been added as a defendant to a lawsuit filed by a group of homeowners hoping to halt a planned wind farm near Carlock.

Judge Charles Reynard granted a request from Information Is Power, the organization opposing the White Oak Wind Energy Center, to put include the county in the lawsuit.

The group claims landowners’ concerns were not fully considered by county officials who approved a special-use permit for the $250 million project.

Chicago-based Invenergy Wind has proposed erecting 100 electricity-generating turbines along the McLean-Woodford county border.

In September, Reynard ruled that Information Is Power could not move forward with the lawsuit against members of the McLean County Board and the county Zoning Board of Appeals as individuals.

In a statement released Thursday, the group applauded Reynard’s decision made Wednesday. Upcoming hearings in the case will allow residents their day in court when a judge can decide if the wind farm is in the best interest of landowners, said the Information Is Power statement.

Assistant State’s Attorney Brian Hug was out of the office Thursday and unavailable to comment on the county’s position on the court ruling.

The lawsuit contends the county changed procedural rules to favor Invenergy Wind’s zoning request.

The next hearing in the case is set for Jan. 3.

By Edith Brady-Lunny

Bloomington Pantagraph

13 December 2007

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