One of the more revealing aspects of the current debate on the proposed use of wind turbines in Kent County is that most people support the development of wind power as an alternative energy source – at least in concept. In real time, not so much, at least not here.
The voicing of grave opposition to the Virginia-based Apex Corporation’s plan to install fifty towers, reaching close to 500 feet in height (about the size of a 48 floor office building) just a few miles from Route 213, the county’s most traveled road, suddenly turns the environmentally progressive into naysayer.
This unfortunate contradiction – the understanding the need for alternative power sources colliding with the gross reality of what that would mean for this small county – is a hard one to resolve easily without accepting a certain degree of NIMBYism (Not in My Backyard).
Read the full article in the Chestertown Spy.