By Tom Steward, Townhall.com
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A $2.3
million federal stimulus project at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St.
Cloud is giving green energy initiatives a bad name.
A 600-kilowatt wind turbine —
some 245 foot tall — stands on the wintry VA grounds, frozen in time and
temperature, essentially inoperable for the past 1 1/2 years. No one is
working to fix it, though many attempts were made to repair the turbine, once
billed as a model green energy project.
“The
St. Cloud VA is a hospital, and our focus is on our patients and we like to
think that we treat our veterans very well here,” said Barry Venable, a public
affairs officer for the VA in St. Cloud. “We’re embarrassed that this turbine
does not operate as advertised.”
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