Question: What do the State of Kansas and Nantucket Sound have in common? Answer: They're both NIMBYs. In Kansas the county in which the rolling Flint Hills are located recently voted to ban wind turbines. Nantucket Sound has just followed suit with a law suit, citing danger to endangered birds and whales. Let's face it. In either of these cases people are not that concerned about birds or whales. If you want to protect whales, stop Japan from killing them for "Research." Want to protect birds? Stop building tall glass facade buildings, get rid of your cat, and buy a dog. Objections to wind turbines are usually visual.

The tiny town of Coldwater Kansas once again proves that Kansas is in the forefront of the state of denial. From passing laws prohibiting the installation of wind turbines in the Flint Hills to forcing schools to teach Creationism, Kansas carries the banner for denial of anything that has happened since the dark ages. The tiny Western Star newspaper, "The Official Newspaper of Coldwater, Kansas," has written an open letter in a two page spread to Al Gore. Why they think he would read it is a mystery...

I just returned from a Thanksgiving trip from Tucson to south Central Kansas.  Traveling north from I-40 up through the rolling hills of Oklahoma, just west of Oklahoma City we encountered two very large wind farms. I think the enormous wind turbines several 100 feet high are magnificent and graceful. They straddled both sides of the two lane country highway, and all of them were steadily churning out electric power. It was enough to make the 2,000 mile round trip worth the trouble and gasoline...