Letters 6/23/11

Property rights

My case against Whitman County is a property rights case.

Does surrounding a residential property with an industrial wind turbine development decrease the value of the residential property?

Does placing one (or in my case eight) industrial wind turbines within 3,500 feet of a residential property create a health threat? (At First Wind’s Mars Hill, Maine project, of the people who live within 3,500 feet of the turbines 82 percent of exposed subjects reported new or worsened chronic sleep deprivation, versus 4 percent in the non-exposed group.î)

Considering one must disclose poss...