Residents clash over Thresher Wind project as commissioners hear public comment
Multiple residents addressed the commission about the planned Thresher Wind project; a developer defended wind technology and poll methodology, while opponents raised aesthetic, health and economic concerns and questioned subsidy dependence.
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Public comment at the Aug. 3 Seward County meeting featured a debate over the proposed Thresher Wind project. John Handy, who said he helped develop the project, criticized a Gravis Marketing poll published locally for omitting methodology and suggested it may have been designed to change opinion rather than measure it. "None of what a legitimate poll discloses," Handy said of the article’s lacking details.
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