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SD Wind Power Backers Working on Education

SD Wind Power Backers Working on Education

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Supporters of wind power in South Dakota are working on public education.
Several projects have been slowed down in recent weeks in Bon Homme, Charles Mix and Lincoln Counties due to local opposition.
Angela Landeen, Executive Director of the South Dakota Wind Energy Association, says they feel they have a good story….

Landeen says those opposed to wind power have become very well organized…..

Landeen says wind power expansion in the state would also be helped by changes in tax policy….

South Dakota is now number three in the country with just over twenty six percent of power now produced by the wind.

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