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Article: SOWING THE WIND; Some southern Minnesota landowners have become pioneers for a new breed of wind farmers as energy costs make the electricity-generating technology more attractive.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 19, 2006
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Byline: Robert Franklin; Staff Writer
Trimont, Minn. -- Business consultant Earl Cummings recalls the day in March 2003 when Doug Scholl came into his Mankato office with a couple of sheets of paper that looked "like he wrote on them with a chocolate bar."
A few farm families owned a total of about 6,000 acres near Trimont and near a Great River Energy electrical generating plant, Scholl said, explaining his hermetic drawings. Why couldn't the landowners become entrepreneurs and develop their own wind farm rather than have some company put up windmill towers and reap most of the profits?
Turns out they could.
With help from Cummings ...