North Dakota Gets Into The Wind: 10,000 Megawatts For The Gubernatorial Election Debate

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Ever driven across North Dakota in August? North Dakota is the US State located top, center on the wind potential map (shown here). Step out of the car and the wind's fingers rip at your shirt buttons, threatening to tear them off. Day after day, wheat stems toss like waves in a storm.

If you've been there and felt that wind, seen the prairie expanses, you know why it is easy to take interest in a gubernatorial platform like this one:

North Dakota should push for 10,000 megawatts of wind power development in the next 12 years along with local ownership of wind projects, the Democratic candidate for governor ...


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