RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 07/20/18> Restricted area? No Trespassing? U.S. Government Property? …. I don’t think so.
When you say Spanish company, little bells go off. Ours is called FENOSA in this country but goes by other names in other countries. They are spreading like wildfire and I would assume it is the same group of people backing it...the King of Spain was a major shareholder. The prices start increasing and the service starts to slide. All the profits they make are taken out of the country not leaving any for further development of improvements to the service. We also have these wind farms here and yes, they are very noisy. Those blades stretch about 130 feet. There was a storm here last fall and one of the towers fell over causing a domino effect. Put a few towers out of action. It has been at least six months since we passed through the area, and they hadn't been reapired then.
I know that in Latin and South America along with here in the USA there is an increasingly amount of local government run utilities that are selling off their (our tax payer) owned infrastructure to foreign companies, water is the big one right now that is being gobbled up in the areas I mentioned. Cities have been so mismanaged that they are looking to sell of these items to pay past due bonds and to payoff retirement benefits that were to lucrative for the workers given they only had to work 20 or 25 years to collect for a lifetime. Some workers went right to work at these cities out of high school and by the time they were 45 they could retire with a life time pension. I know some folks like that who have been collecting their pension longer than they actually worked.
The Spanish company involved in the Texas wind farms is Acciona Energia from the story in the Brownsville newspaper I read online.
The farms here don't look to have the a potential for a domino effect if one topples, they are spread out about three football fields away from each other at the closest, possibly even farther but it is hard to say exactly the distance.