Once upon a time in Ohio, there were big Green dreams afloat.
It all really got rolling back in 2012, when the feds wrote a honkin’ yuge check to the Lake Erire Development Corporation (LEEDCO) to see if they could pull off a pie-in-the-sky fresh water windfarm that would be able to survive when the winds of November came early, as well as when ice shuts the lake down.
That’s a tall order.
In December 2012, Lake Erie Development Corporation (LEEDCo) received a $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy as 1 of 7 demonstration projects for the first phase of competition. With this grant money, LEEDCo launched additional research projects to assess biological risks to wildlife and other environmental and ecological risks as well as a public support campaign to gauge Ohioans’ interest in investing in the project and in buying wind power.
You see the kind of money…
