Saturday, November 21, 2009 East Central Illinois

Vermilion County committee focuses on plan for wind farms

By Tracy Moss
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:01 AM CDT

DANVILLE – Vermilion County officials forged ahead Monday with their first discussion on how to regulate the potential construction of wind-turbine farms in the absence of a countywide zoning system.

Several wind-turbine companies are seriously considering the county for development of alternative-energy farms, but the county is different from other counties where wind farms already exist because Vermilion has no zoning.

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