Rose Bacon, who lives southwest of Council Grove in the Flint Hills, spoke following Porter’s comments. Bacon gave the audience members a lot to think about. Bacon, who is in the cattle and ranching industry, has done extensive research on wind energy. She commented on wind energy terminology.

“They are not farms,” she said. “They don’t raise anything. They are wind turbines, they are not windmills.”

There are no state or federal regulations, safety or otherwise, in regards to wind energy, Bacon said.

“There are guidelines,” she said. “But they are only guidelines. There is absolutely no teeth to them. If you, as a county, do not make regulations ... you have absolutely no back-up of any kind.”