In Champaign County the developers of that project recently filed an amendment to their permit slashing the number
of proposed turbines from about 100 to 50.
In December 2006 MTH agreed to design, fabricate and install foundations
for proposed turbines, which then started to fail in April 2010.
The issue with
the proposed turbines is that they pose a threat of interference with military radar and flight operations.
It was the unacceptably high impacts of
the proposed turbines, that mobilised the community to support and educate themselves.
Calum Macdonald, former Western Isles MP and developer of the three - turbine Beinn Ghrideag community wind farm, described the scale of
the proposed turbines as «simply staggering».
Scaling this figure up for the 199
proposed turbines of Ceres we get a figure of 89ha taken out of production.
Sandra Kanck (then South Australian Democrat MLC) said that the stand of trees is only 20m from one of
the proposed turbines.