March 29, 2024

‘Is this really worth it?’

While traveling north on Cherry Street from Creston to the Henry A. Wallace Road recently, I was taken back as to what I saw was happening to our beautiful countryside.

The sheer number of unsightly windmills that are going up along this road mile after mile was jaw dropping. The large equipment has left huge scars on the landscape with gravel paths cutting through the fields into what was once beautiful fields of corn and soybeans.

Soon, all the windmills will be installed and the humming noise and distracting blinking of red lights will begin their annoying presence across the land that you can see for miles and miles.

I am saddened that this raping of the land is taking place in beautiful southwest Iowa. However, money talks, and this is what our children and grandchildren will soon have to endure and find as the norm. So sad! I would ask that you take time to drive up north or south on this road to see for yourself what has happened to our beautiful landscape. Is this really worth it?