From the Lincoln Journal Star:
The Lancaster County Board should heed the request of a local coalition that it take another look at the super-strict noise limits it approved last year for wind turbines.
As John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, told the board last week, the regulations “make it next to impossible to develop wind energy in our county.”
The county board’s action takes a sizable bite out of property rights, and imposes an undue regulatory burden on industry.
The new regulations set a noise limit of 40 decibels in the day and 37 at night for wind turbines.
To put the limit in perspective, the board members probably exceeded the daytime limits in their own meeting room when they were discussing the issue.