Who benefits from wind farm?

Dear Editor,

Who benefits? The wind farm coming to the Broad Mountain I'm sure will be built with all kinds of taxpayer subsidies. Who benefits? Certainly not the people of Nesquehoning whose houses face the mountain and the lovely new views they will awake to every morning, and certainly not the local and migrating birds that will fly into the spinning blades and towers.

Will this farm lower our electric rates? I personally am not against fracking to extract natural gas, as this is a safe practice that has been going on for years, though it is fairly recently that we are hearing so many negatives about the practice.

If the owners want to maintain the mineral rights for the public good "so that no fracking can occur," let them relinquish those rights to some environmental group just in case the owners down the road decide that fracking might not be such a bad thing and change their minds.

I agree though that it is nice of them to continue to allow hunting and quad riding in the area.

Bob Alward

Lehighton