The most oil-rich and fracking-friendly of states has found itself with the improbable status of being a national leader in a wind energy boom
Living in New York and Washington, Greg Wortham heard all the grand talk about green energy from liberal politicians. Then he returned to the place where he grew up, a small town that embraced wind power so warmly that within a couple of years of the first turbine turning, it had some of the biggest farms on the planet.
Yet Wortham is not from California, Oregon or New England, but a deeply conservative sector of Texas on the edge of the Permian Basin, one of the most bountiful oil and gas patches in the world.
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Wind came at the right time and fit the mentality of folks that wanted green but in our mind we’re not a green region
Wind is where oil and gas was in Texas in 1914, 1920. No laws have really yet been created … it’s just the wild frontier
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