Monroe County sets hearing on wind farm
The Tomah Journal Online ran a story by Bob Kliebenstein on a public hearing on January 10, 2006, in Sparta on a Monroe County ordinance to regulate commercial wind farms. The story reads in part:
Monroe County residents are invited to attend a public hearing for discussion on an ordinance to regulate commercial wind farms. The hearing is Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. in the Monroe County board room in the basement of the courthouse in Sparta.
The Monroe County Sanitation/Planning & Zoning/Forestry Committee has been working to draft an ordinance that would provide guidance for wind farm developments. The committee decided earlier this year the county should have an ordinance in place with interest from a firm to develop a wind farm to harness wind from Monroe County’s ridges.
Invenergy LLC, based in Chicago, Ill., began meeting with county landowners in 2004 to gauge interest in developing a wind farm called Summit Ridge Energy Corporation.
