From the Muncie Star-Press:
The chairman of the city-county plan commission isn’t the only local government official who is not ready to welcome wind farms to Delaware County.
E.ON Climate & Renewables this week canceled an appearance before the council, from which it was scheduled to ask for property tax abatement for a wind farm.
The reason?
“In my opinion, they pulled the request off the table until a later date yet to be determined because I think they are pretty well tuned in to what the council’s actions would be,” council member Mike Jones told The Star Press. “Again, in my opinion, trust me, the council will most likely turn it down, most likely unanimously.”
He told about 125 wind farm opponents at a meeting Tuesday night in Selma Elementary School that E.ON has told the county’s tax abatement committee that without tax abatement “they are out of here.”
Jones disclosed during the meeting that he lives on the fringe of the proposed wind farm, as does council member Rick Spangler. Council President Kevin Nemyer lives “in the heart of it,” Jones added.
E.ON is hoping to build 22 to 29 wind turbines in an area bounded by Country Club Road, the Randolph County line, Ind. 32 and Albany at a cost of more than $100 million, Jones and County Commissioner Sherry Riggin told the crowd.
The company also plans to construct another 30 or so wind turbines at a cost of more than $100 million in Randolph County as part of the same project.
Jones and Nemyer sit on county council’s tax abatement committee, along with Dewayne Richmond and Fred Martin. The fifth seat is currently vacant.
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