Vermilion County Board members are closely watching legislation moving through the Illinois General Assembly. One bill, particularly, involves the site selection process for wind and solar projects. Vermilion County Board Chairman Larry Baughn stated after Tuesday’s (Jan 10th) County Board meeting that the county had passed an ordinance earlier regarding wind turbines.
https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2509/files/2023/01/hello-larry.mp3AUDIO: About a year ago at this time; we had passed a resolution, an ordinance, to change some of our setbacks. We put a little more teeth into them and took them from 2.1 to, I think, three times the heighth of the tower. And now the legislature has passed, at least through the State Senate at this hour, to take it back down to 2.1, where we were to begin with. I’m going to assume, at this point, that…