“I grew up on a ranching farm. I’ve always cussed it. It’s difficult to work in. Now, I can look out my courthouse window and see those turbines turning. This makes the wind much more tolerable knowing you are selling it and our taxpayers benefit,” he says.
He isn’t alone. With few exceptions, residents and public officials across the rural Texas Panhandle and adjacent plains are embracing what is the biggest wind rush in North America.
