Renville County
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Thursday, September 03,2009 OLIVIA, MN 1 ,600 (15) Newspaper (W) A4 Center For Rural Affalrs
Renewable energy potential , There is no legislafion in Congress with greater potential to ereate jobs and directly impact rural revitalization and economic deyelopment in the Midwest and Great plains than the renewable energy bill currendy pending in the U.S. Senate. According to a recent Center 1 report (http://files.cfra.org/pdf/Renewable -.Energy-and-EconomicPotentiaLpdf), expanding production of renewable electricity to 20 percent of the nation's electrical generation has the potential to create nearly 1,800 long-term jobs in operations and maintenance of ~Minnesotawind farms. Jobs are only a part of the potential economic benefit of a 20 percent renewable . electricity standard. &Gnnesota farmers would stand to to the tune of benefit as well approximately $26.5 million, $5,000 per wind turbine, in annual payments for leasing land for wind turbines, *
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access roads and the like. \find ~~h~ energy developcrabtree ment initiatives that allow farmers and ranchers to share in the ownCenter ership of turbines for Rural as well as the profAffairs its generated by their operation would provide even greater economic benefits. The renewable electricity standard is important, but it is crucial the standardthatcameoutofthesenate Energy Committee 10 percent from wind, solar, geothermal, new hydroelectric and biomass by the year 2021 be strengthened on the floor of the Senate in order for the rural Midwest to realize the fullest economic potential of wind energy development. Minnesota should be part of America's energy future and the accompanying, unprecedented opportunity to create jobs and a better future for rural communities.
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