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Senator Conrad Offers Bill to Spur Wind Energy Development Special Incentives for Farmers, Ranchers.

Advanced Materials & Composites News, February, 2002

Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota announced a package on 10 January of legislative initiatives to encourage wind energy development, and take advantage of the near-limitless potential to produce clean, abundant power from the winds that sweep across the North Dakota prairies.

Conrad's plan includes tax credits, grants, no-interest loans and additional funding for research and development of wind energy. He announced the initiative at the 2002 Marketplace of Ideas in Grand Forks, where two wind-tower manufacturing companies LM GlasFiber (Grand Forks) and DMI Industries of (West Fargo), staged exhibits.

"Chicago calls itself the windy city, but up here, we know better. Every city in North Dakota is a windy city, and that has the potential to pay...

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