{"id":1585,"date":"2015-10-07T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:22:00","slug":"wind-energy-company-says-rules-may-force-it-to-nix-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/07\/wind-energy-company-says-rules-may-force-it-to-nix-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind energy company says rules may force it to nix plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An attorney representing an energy company that has plans for a wind farm in Lancaster and Gage counties said proposed wind regulations being considered by both counties may prevent the company from building in either.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at least two Lancaster County commissioners said they are concerned proposed wind energy regulations they are to consider later this month won\u2019t do enough to protect landowners from being negatively affected by wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>But David Levy, a Lincoln attorney representing Volkswind USA, said those regulations go beyond protecting the safety and welfare of residents and will make it difficult, if not impossible, to develop wind turbines in Lancaster and Gage counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, what they\u2019re going to do is make Lancaster County and Gage County effectively off-limits for wind energy development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/wind-energy-company-says-rules-may-force-it-to-nix\/article_78069d33-ee70-5620-a6ac-f60de37eead3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: An attorney representing an energy company that has plans for a wind farm in Lancaster and Gage counties said proposed wind regulations being considered by both counties may prevent the company from building in either. Meanwhile, at least two Lancaster County commissioners said they are concerned proposed wind energy regulations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/07\/wind-energy-company-says-rules-may-force-it-to-nix-plans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wind energy company says rules may force it to nix plans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}