To Communities Considering Wind Turbines:

We live in Hansford County, Texas. My husband's great-grandfather homesteaded our farm in 1904. Wind turbines went up in our county in 2021.

NextEra Energy located a wind turbine 1,508 feet from our farmhouse. During work and installation, the wind turbine construction crews ruined our farm-to-market roads, county roads, and State Highway 136.
They congested, stopped, and blocked traffic in our county for many months, making it impossible for our community to travel efficiently and conduct business in a timely manner.

Since the wind turbines were erected, the wind turbines have destroyed our personal and professional quality of life on the farm. When the turbines are running, they make horrible noises: a loud, high-pitched screech that sounds like bad semi-truck brakes constantly coming through our front window, and a deep rumble like a low-flying jet that never lands. My husband, our animals, and I could not even sleep at night on the farm anymore. We literally had to buy a house off of our farm to find enough quiet and peace to sleep at night. I have health issues that have been exacerbated by the wind turbines being so close to our farm on FM
2535 and Highway 136, where we continue to work and farm. As a result, I am no longer able to be at the farm daily and work productively alongside my husband.

Our property and land value have plummeted while our county taxes continue to rise.

The wind turbines are the number one user of electricity in our county.

All of these negative destructive factors are now part of our daily lives because our county commissioners chose to allow NextEra to move into Hansford County and build wind turbines with government subsidies and county tax abatements.

Please do not agree to put wind turbines in your county, regardless of what is promised to your county by the wind turbine company.

The wind turbines have only caused misery, grief, sickness, financial struggles, and a loss of personal and professional quality of life for many people in our county.

Sincerely,
Kyle and Spunky Williams
9363 FM 2535
Hansford County, Texas