MECHANICSVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) – All that’s left of Cedar County farmer Sally Freeman’s last wind turbine is fiberglass, wires and concrete after the company, Acciona, decided to take it down with explosives in November.
Freeman said the turbine had been damaged after lightning strikes caused three fires. She said the operation to take it down left a big crater on her family’s farm.
“Now it’s a matter of picking up the mess that’s here,” Freeman said. “And hopefully they actually clean up this mess, being they’ve got three before them, they didn’t do.”
She said she had to clean up debris from fires on both of her wind turbines after the company Acciona’s cleanup.
Freeman said she ran into problems that got worse that no one seemed responsible for.
“We found that with wind turbines, there’s a lot of passing the buck, you know, ‘It’s not my job, it’s so-and-so’s job,‘” Freeman said.
Now, she’s pushing…
