Lawmakers in North Dakota debate potential future wind farm proposals

North Little Rock, Arkansas – State legislators are already debating a different strategy to prevent wind turbine blades from ending up in landfills.

Wind turbine blades would be added to the list of things that shouldn’t be thrown away in landfills by House Bill 1090.

The bill was created to promote more environmentally friendly uses for surplus coal and wind turbines after a wind tower is shut down.

Often strengthened with fiberglass, the blades are difficult to decompose.

“Typically, the wind blades, we’ve heard can last 10 to 15, maybe up to 20 years,” Diana Trussell said. Trussell is the solid waste program manager with North Dakota’s Department of Environmental Quality. “So, then if you imagine everything turning over all of a sudden within a short time period, our landfills would get overwhelmed with that. And wouldn’t have the space for it.”

Currently, any offline towers and turbines must be disposed of by wind businesses.

According to Trussell, the University of North Dakota is presently researching additional use for used blades, such as grinding and adding them to concrete.

“It’s not something that I just wrote. This is something that I went and observed and then wrote from my observation. This is something that I have lived every day of my life.”

Currently, any offline towers and turbines must be disposed of by wind businesses.

According to Trussell, the University of North Dakota is presently researching additional use for used blades, such as grinding and adding them to concrete.

“I remember crying on Father’s Day. I shed tears about the death of my father. It was about 35 years after his death. It was my first time to become emotional on Father’s Day because he wasn’t there. He was absent,” said Pastor Stewart.

He argues that after turning 50, it was time to write the book for someone else, something he wishes he had done before having kids.

Boys who grow up in a home without a father are 20 times more likely to wind up in jail or prison, according to Pastor Stewart’s study for the book. He asserts that the child is more likely to grow up in poverty based on data.

“We have treated symptoms that’s why there’s overcrowding in the prisons and jails because we’re treating a symptom instead of the root cause. We have to go back to the homes to find out the root cause,” said Pastor Stewart.

For more information on Pastor Frank Stewart and his book Father Deficiency, go to actsministriesonline.org.