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Wind Energy Bill Gets Warm Reception by North Dakota Senate Committee.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2001
By Jaime DeLage, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 15--BISMARCK, N.D.--Coal-country senators asked some pointed questions, but overall, a package of wind energy incentives received a friendly hearing Wednesday in the Senate Finance and Tax Committee.
House bills 1221, 1222 and 1223 would reduce property and sales taxes on wind turbines and extend an existing income tax credit to wind developers. The bills, passed by a wide margin in the House, would treat wind farms similarly to coal-fired power plants and would put North Dakota's wind incentives nearly on par with Minnesota's.
The combined hearings were held in the auditorium of the State Heritage Center to make room for numerous wind-energy supporters,...
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