Wind Power Fills Sails Of A Devastated Detroit

     10 MILE POINT, ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI - 350 Megawatts of wind power blowing from Lake St. Clair pushes back against the economic tsunami that devastated Metropolitan Detroit in the wake of the US manufacturing sector collapse. Thirty five 10MW towers built by Westerly Wind Inc. and Customers Power Inc. provide cheaper power for over 98,000 Metro Detroit homes. Coal, at one time the cheapest source of electricity, has had its costs driven ever higher by the insatiable demand of the manufacturing countries, and the incredible shrinking US dollar.

     The Lake St. Clair Wind Project has provided the region with thousands of desperately needed higher paying jobs.  "With food being so terribly expensive, and gas at five, going on six dollars a gallon, wind power is about the only thing Michigan has going for it," said a Metro Detroit resident.

     It almost didn't happen.  St. Clair Wind Project went ahead despite the Lakeshore Resident's bitter fight against the rest of Metro Detroit.  It only ended after "sit-ins" by non-resident Metro Detroiters at Lakshore Resident-Only parks.  In the attempt by Local Police to dislodge the non-residents, off duty police and fire fighters, plus influential members of surrounding Detroit communities were seriously injured.  The international news services picked up on the incident and broadcast it around the globe for several days.  It publicly embarrassed the President, who was already suffering the embarrassment being forced to, for the first time, attend the G20 instead of the G7.

     "It came down to this.  It is more important for a family to eat than for a rich shoreline owner to have an aesthetically pleasing view," a government official said off the record, "the Lakeshore Residents should have known that."

     Westerly Wind plans more turbines for the US side, and construction ships are still working on the Canadian project.