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The Starbucks Rule Applied
January 15, 2021 Environment

In Cohocton. The Starbucks Rule, so to speak, is the idea (as reported in Business Week over a decade ago) that wind developers put projects in areas that are at least 30 miles away from the nearest Starbucks.

Why?

If the wind mills were sited any closer, there would be too much NIMBYism about the noise and eyesores.

Here is the closest wind farm to where I live (there are single scattered ones up on the lake, but no farms to speak of yet, despite the lake front of Ontario (and in the water itself) seeming to be perfect places to site them):

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