Zach Frechette
Former Editor in Chief of GOOD
Despite persistent complaints from the "not in my back yard" crowd, TreeHugger reports that installing wind turbines on or near your property has no significant negative impact:There might be other reasons left for people not wanting wind turbines near their properties, but it seems like a decline in commercial value isn't one of them. A new study conducted by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (the study can be found here (pdf)) looked at many thousands of homes close to wind farms - even some that were very close, between 800 to 3,000 feet - and didn't find a "statistically significant" link.
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