Thursday, September 13, 2012

Hammond anti-wind group distances itself from letter’s signers

By AMANDA PURCELL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

HAMMOND — A group opposed to commercial wind development distanced itself Wednesday from a letter it signed along with an oil industry-backed group calling for an end to federal wind power subsidies.

A spokeswoman for the Concerned Residents of Hammond said Wednesday the group did not intend to align itself with the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, which is backed by billionaire Kansas oil magnates Charles and David Koch. A Concerned Residents member signed the Sept. 6 letter along with more than 60 other anti-wind-development groups. It calls for federal legislators to allow the Product Tax Credit for wind developers to expire at the end of the year.

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