Champaign County Wind received an email about an upcoming deadline and we are asking you, as our friends and neighbors, to consider submitting a comment on Everpower's plan to mitigate the environmental impacts of installing their turbines. The fact is that, with reduced bat populations, pests and insects will increase and it is estimated that Champaign County Farmers will have to spend an additional $12 million per year on pesticides. This money will devastate any potential income that farmers will gain from hosting a turbine on their land. Not to mention the increased health concerns as the environmental difficulties of increased pesticide use become more and more apparent. The following information is from the email we received -- please feel free to spread the word: "The deadline to comment on Everpower's Environmental Impact Statement and Habitat Conservation Plan is this week on Thursday, September 27th . Attached is Everpower's proposed Action Plan to...
"They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is grain, foreigners will eat it." - Hosea 8:7